The biggest thing missing from Mastodon remains the ability to *actually* migrate an account between servers.
The follower-migrate feature is not enough. I need to be able to migrate an entire account, including posts. And I should be able to do it without the former server cooperating (because of course servers can go down). I should be able to get some sort of cryptographic cert I can send to a new server with my posts and they'll be like "oh yeah, this is real, migrating u now".
If this feature existed, I'm not sure I'd make use of it! Maybe I'd decide m.s deserves on its own merits to be my server.
But if we had this feature, actually had it, quite a lot of other potentially problematic elements of the fediverse— especially the ones related to a network overemphasis on mastodon.social— would no longer be a problem.
I don't know *when* I expect this featureset to exist by. It sounds kinda hard. But it *needs* to exist eventually.
@mcc yeah, I haven’t formally migrated because I’m not prepared to lose access to all my old posts, but being on a new server has also made me feel the gaps in the mastodon model in another way.
I used to ignorantly from my mastodon.social account encourage new fedi users check out unusual hashtags to find friends, but now that I’m on a smaller server, I’ve found that there are barely any posts that show up in searches, even for common stuff like #FashionHistory!
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