@Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
"a full, nomadic-identity-style move from Mastodon to anywhere is technically impossible"

It really isn't. Moving your social graph is built in. The lack of content portability is a problem, but there's tool now that helps with that ✨
It still isn't nomadic identity style.

Imagine you move from foo.social to bar.social. Your whole account, just without the instance-specific login credentials, moves along with you. Including all your posts.

Now it comes: Your posts don't re-appear on everyone's timelines as new, unread posts as they normally would. They don't appear as read double posts either. Your whole backlog of existing posts on everyone's timelines all over the Fediverse are being automatically re-assigned from tokyo_0@foo.social to tokyo_0@bar.social as the author.

Also, nobody has to re-follow you. All your followers and all your followed are being automatically re-assigned from tokyo_0@foo.social to tokyo_0@bar.social, too, without having to do anything themselves.

Also, your account on foo.social is completely wiped and ceases to exist.

Afterwards, everything looks like you've always been on bar.social.

That would be nomadic identity style.

"99% of all Fediverse newbies are railroaded to Mastodon without being told what else there is in the Fediverse"

That's not really what happens, though. No one is strong-arming people to join Mastodon. It's just the one that's caught attention.
That's because the main gateway into the Fediverse is not fediverse.party or fediverse.info. It's rather mastodon.social or the official Mastodon app which nudges everyone to mastodon.social, too. Or for Japanese users, it's misskey.io.

Justifiedly so. If you tell people who want to get away from Musk that they first have to choose one out of dozens of Fediverse projects and then one out of dozens or hundreds or thousands of instances without even knowing what either is, they'll nope out because that's way too complicated.

If you railroad them to mastodon.social and leave them to figure out everything themselves when they're ready for it, they'll bite because that's easy enough.

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