I never said it wasn't an alternative. Or put down your choice. I was just including the addendum that no-one should expect to be able to do bring any of their

I never said it wasn't an alternative. Or put down your choice. I was just including the addendum that no-one should expect to be able to do bring any of their existing [and possibly built up over years] 'stuff' with them, should they decide to move to the fediverse. >It's not like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram offers this feature either, and they seem to get along just fine... They're the incumbents, with billions of users. They don't have to give a shit. Wannabe alternatives, on the other hand, do. People always bang on about 'vendor lock-in". But no-one seems to consider 'vendor lock-out'. If you're going to start a rival to a company with millions of users, many of whom have been on there for years, it smacks of colossal arrogance to expect them all to flock to your new alternative and just lose everything they've built up over the years on the rival site. And the irony is that; all the companies you mentioned make it easy for you to export your existing data. But none of their fediverse rivals avail of that to actually offer you a way to import it.