Mastodawn

mcc Apr 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".

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@mcc yeah i've thought about this too. realistically i don't have the energy to take it on but it's interesting to imagine how you could graft this onto the existing implementation.

one big thing i'd probably want would be a way for people to be able to sync their account locally (and keep it synced) _before_ their server dies or goes away.