Defederation should make follower relationships inactive instead of removing them entirely

### Pitch When two servers defederate, the current behavior is to delete all follower/following relationships between users of those two servers. The proposal is: instead of deleting these relationships, the server should somehow mark them as inactive. This way the relationships can be restored if the servers re-federate or the user moves to a new instance. ### Motivation This proposal is motivated by recent events between mstdn.social and mastodon.art. The two servers suddenly defederated and then re-federated due to admin conflict. In the current system, users have lost the valuable information about who they followed and are left to piece it together themselves. If this proposal were to be implemented, their follow lists would have been restored as if nothing ever happened.

Posted by ianh on Jun 20, 2023, 3:37 PM

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