@mcc if part of the problem here is "oops my instance suffered catastrophic existence failure", then I don't think account migration is enough? it's not like you can migrate from an instance that doesn't exist anymore.

maybe a solution that involves linking accounts on multiple instances to a single identity? all your posts go to all linked accounts, people can follow any one of them, all your connections aggregate back to one "main" identity? something like that

@Xkeeper snooty stack overflow answer: "why are you using spring if you don't want to use spring's idioms to solve every single problem in your project"

me: [gestures vaguely in the direction of my paycheck]