MistyI try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
Mike Perham 
@misty @sstephenson why not treat it more as ephemeral chatter rather than content needing a forever home? That’s what I use a blog for.
Sam Stephenson@getajobmike @misty I’m good with ephemerality when it’s my choice! Not so much when it’s someone else’s whim or circumstances. And I think most people don’t have the necessary context when they pick an instance and create an account
PointlessOne 
@sstephenson @getajobmike @misty
I treat toots more like in-the-moment thing but I still want to preserve it. Because while it's not the most refined and evergreen it's still kinda a reflection of me.
This is kinda why I went with my own instance.
More on topic, migration is in the works for Mastodon (and ActivityPub as a protocol) but meanwhile you can use Slurp to import a Mastodon export archive.
@pointlessone I’m curious, is it actively in the works? The last few times I’ve seen this come up, the discussion had actively stalled out and there was no work towards a Mastodon implementation.
@misty I’ll be honest, I don't pay much attention to it but I saw it on the roadmap somewhere. My understanding is that it takes time because they also want to make it a w3c spec and all spec work takes a lot of time.