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Quick update on moving accounts in Mastodon:
- the alias+move option worked this time, hard to say why it did not work the first time
- the bug that I submitted 5 days ago did not get any attention

Anyway, the jump is complete, I'm on the new instance. Unfortunately feels exactly the same. I was advised that local feeds offer an interesting "local flavour" stream, but having looked at a few, I don't see reasons to get excited about local.

Which made me wonder: there does not seem to be much innovation (or maybe there is actually none?) in terms of functionalities offered by the different servers.

I get it that this comes from the federated nature of mastodon, where you want the functionalities determined by the protocol that ensures interoperability between the instances.

But there is always an option to add a feature that goes beyond the interoperable core of features. And also the protocol could be updated to include a new feature. Who decides whether that happens?

So basically more questions, more things to find out. If you have any leads please let me know, also in terms of hashtags because #mastodon feels to general, #interoperability too technical and #feditips is a bit mysterious.