MistyThe more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!
I think for many users, if they lose their posting history when moving to a new server, they have less reason to stay here instead of moving to a new network. If they're losing everything anyway, why not move to bluesky or something else?
joshuatj@misty indeed. Are there third-party tools that might help with this? Or is this very much can only be done with changes in core?
Paolo Amoroso@joshuatj This third-party Mastodon migration tool is a laudable effort but using it is well beyond the abilities of ordinary users.
Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)