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".

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@mcc I think disconnecting identity, data, and apps, we could also make a giant leap forward. Because you can migrate from one mastodon instance today, even if imperfect, but you can’t use let’s say mastodon, pixelfed, and calckey with the same identity.

But I do agree that complete identity and data migrations makes sense.

Apr 22, 2023 at 2:32amWeb