Jesse"Voting with your feet" is a backstop not a first resort. The first resort should be democratic decision making. We should not accept instances where the users don't collectively have ultimate authority over policy and defederation decisions.
elle mundy@misc at first i thought this was about moving states vs voting in elections, and i was about to respond “some people vote with their feet when they stand on line at the polling place all day”
@exchgr I mean, I'm definitely using that analogy to try and make sense of our situation here! Everything should be easier - at least minimally painful - including voting, and including the backstop of emigrating altogether.
@misc seems like it would be so much less of an issue if people could migrate their posts along with their accounts
@exchgr Yeah... there are issues that need to be ironed out but I agree. (I also think a pretty and easy way to publicly memorialize your post history across networks, including Twitter, might be even better for most people?)
@misc like a post archive host or something? or even just internet archive?
@exchgr The former. I think there should be a site where you can sign up for an account, one click upload of your archives from Twitter, Mastodon, or wherever, and it displays them with pretty styling, and searchability if you choose. And the software running all this should be open source, so you can export your archival account *itself* and take it to another web host at will.
@misc having trouble finding it now but i could’ve sworn something like this existed
@exchgr The prior art I can think of is @darius’s Twitter archiver https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ and @manton’s lovely but discontinued Watermark.io.