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 Apr 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.

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val

@mcc Yeah it would probably be pretty hard. It may even need changes to AP for other instances to see the moved posts (because their URI has to change), but even if they don't all support it, it's still better than nothing