I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly: If you switch Mastodon instances, it's easy to transfer your network/follows over (I did this), but NOT your content. Is this right? If you change instances you can't move your toots to the new one?
This makes the "don't be held hostage by a platform!" benefit less compelling doesn't it? Like what if someone just doesn't pay the bill for your instance? All your content's gone?
Am I missing something?
@Rozzychan I actually have some links to Twitter threads on my website. :) But at some point if you want to keep something you can always put it somewhere else.
But in part what I think this illustrates is that this configuration could not work for content creators.
@cfiesler
I promote content here that is hosted elsewhere, and I can put it in a pinned post that I can copy and change settings to make sure that pinned posts don't expire.
In truth the reason that I never used a twitter account is that they keep the posts forever and do research on them with your name attached. I suppose that is okay for some, but I always felt that as a teacher one could be fired and retaliated against because of the permanence of twitter threads. #mastodonDifferences
Dr. Casey Fiesler
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