mccApr 21, 2023

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".

Show threadmccApr 21, 2023

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.

Show threadbob
@mcc it's not hard on a technical level, tls has everything you need to do this, but there's an incentive problem
Apr 21, 2023 at 11:23pmWeb
Show threadbobApr 21, 2023
@mcc if you wanted something that didn't require support from the server you could do it for peers that were following you already, and I think that's actually sufficient. do a special post with your public key and when you migrate send a special signed DM to everyone who followed you