What mastodon needs, as other people have pointed out, is the ability for users to "escape" from one instance in the event that its mods become authoritarian or the instance disappeared.
This is would result in a situation where people are truly free to speak and are able to escape the control of censors and dictators.
I think through the CSV file you can transfer who you follow, but not who follows you. Am I wrong here?
But that's just more confusion right? If things are split up into all these instances, it's impractical to set up accounts for each "mini tribe" you want to engage with... Right now I'm in the "social" instance. I want to check out @nvk also. but then what about MrHodl world, Joe Blow world, etc. etc. etc. - the whole sharding of instances seems like it'll lead to "death by silos".
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