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"while the design of the system still preserves their freedom to move to another instance if they later decide to do so" No, it doesn't. It allows the user to

• setr 8y ago
  With a twitter-like system, is there that much to lose when starting over, other than the community itself? I don't use twitter at all, but I'm imagining a twitter migration similar to a * chan mass migrations; the only baggage to take is the people and their way of doing things. I suppose with twitter you get a history of tweets, but as I understand it, tweets are only accidentally preserved, much in the same way * chans are by archival services. But they're not really meant to be referenced 5 years from now, as a longer-form document might.