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In "Preferences/Account/Account Settings/Move to a different account" I can redirect to a new account in a different server. That means I can turn my current ac
by invalidname 2y ago
In "Preferences/Account/Account Settings/Move to a different account" I can redirect to a new account in a different server. That means I can turn my current account to a ghost account and everything will move to that new account.
It isn't perfect but it lets you migrate while still keeping people engaged.
- seba_dos1 2y agoI'm perfectly aware of that. It's insufficient. It's akin of creating a new account and posting "find me there now" on your old one - the only added benefit aside of UX is that you can move most of your old followers automatically. When the old instance goes down, your whole old content goes down too. Even if you import your old content (which is rarely possible unless you're self-hosting), it becomes a fully separate new content that now spams other instances with duplicates and is disjointed from any replies and other interactions that happened on your old content. You could boost all your old posts, but then you're still relying on them being hosted in the old place and UX goes funky (no more "Media" tab, for example, and the usual woes that come with federation get amplified). You could end up with something semi-reasonable by writing your own implementation to host your content, but then you're forced to self-host forever. All of those problems would disappear if you could separate your identity from the place that hosts your content. That's the one thing Bluesky got right - but since it didn't get many other things right, our biggest hope is still on Mastodon et al. fixing it in the future.