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@shalien @me @Tipa My biggest complaint about the Fediverse, but more specifically Mastodon, is the *inability* to own your data. It is bizarre to me that there still isn’t already robust support for migrating posts between accounts/servers.

I feel like I can’t recommend Mastodon to my friends because while they can probably trust that Facebook or Twitter/X won’t disappear overnight, Mastodon/Fediverse instances shut down All. The. Time. I don’t want to have my friends lose their data because of some false narrative of owning it here. Even on my own instance…

While I don’t use it or agree with all of it, one thing that Bluesky/AT was trying to solve was disentangling user data with the home server. While I don’t think their implementation is necessarily accessible to most users, it shocks me that there is not an equivalent for Fediverse/Mastodon migrations.