> though that's more a limitation of the fediverse protocols and fediverse software that really needs fixing I don't believe ATProto has the same issues, and I

> though that's more a limitation of the fediverse protocols and fediverse software that really needs fixing I don't believe ATProto has the same issues, and I believe it would take quite a rearchitecture of ActivityPub to solve. > such that you can import it into a different service later This is the key issue. There is no way to import posts in Mastodon without manually fudging the database (which I also had to do when running my own instance). As another commenter mentioned, it's a tricky issue, in large part because it's not part of the federation protocol. Bluesky solves this by separating the storage from the other parts of the distributed system, such that you don't need to move your storage to change your identity, hosting, moderation, etc. Keeping them independent is a smart move.