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Since you are highly knowledgeable about AP/Mastodon, may I was one more question, if you have a moment? I believe that one of the neatest things about AT/Blue

Since you are highly knowledgeable about AP/Mastodon, may I was one more question, if you have a moment? I believe that one of the neatest things about AT/Bluesky is that each user has their own SQLite DB. This and DIDs makes account portability pretty easy, right? [0] Where is AP/Mastodon on account portability? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881905 (I assume it's progressed since then)

Doxin 2y ago
> Where is AP/Mastodon on account portability? ActivityProtocol doesn't really get involved with "account portability" as far as I understand it. It's a problem the client needs to solve. In the case of Mastodon it's pretty easy to export your account, import it elsewhere, and set up a redirect. Currently that doesn't carry over posts but there's no real reason why it couldn't.
ocdtrekkie 2y ago
Mastodon offers to migrate relationships between accounts automatically, so moving both people you follow and people following you. But it doesn't offer post migration between servers. Since it doesn't use anything like DIDs, it'd be pretty hard to reassociate your posts as other servers know them with a new account ID. I know of one other software, Firefish, that would migrate your old posts, but just not federate them. So you could have the archive of them still attached to your account, they just wouldn't be seen across the network.