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@sbb@c.imSomething that's been concerning me for a long time is how people don't want to leave social media platforms, even when they turn more toxic. The term these days is "enshittified".
I, for one, really appreciate #Mastodon for allowing one the ability to migrate from one instance to another, thereby not losing one's ever-so-precious "social graph".
Another interesting example of not losing one's "Social Graph" (in a migration from one server to another) is #Deltachat, which uses "AEAP" ("Advanced Email Address Porting").
I think these awesome migration features should be praised more. Taking such control back, over one's social graph is no small victory these days. Such ease of migration is a bulwark against enshittification; it's the easy ability to move elsewhere.
Note: #Buddhism has a comparable tradition of such protection through migration: once monks and nuns gain their "independence", they are much more free to wander from one monastery to the next.
Or really any platform/ thing in the #Fediverse! Don't like Mastodon? Use Echo or Glitch or Go To Social or Miskey, the one app I can never seem to spell, or Friendica or any other kind of thing @sbb
@sbb Follower migration is cool and all but what we really need is post migration.
@sbb ...then again
it is kind of a big deal that Masto lets you export/import your list of who you're following, isn't it.
@sbb We started with Mastodon so it feels kind of unremarkable, it's just how things work
but of course Twitter doesn't do that, Bluesky doesn't do that
and besides, where would you even import it! they're centralized.
@sbb (I'm saying "mastodon" here mostly because follower import/export is a Masto feature; I don't know if other server software has it, but hopefully they do)
@IceWolf
>"Twitter doesn't do that, Bluesky doesn't do that"
They're kind of like "Hotel California", where you can "never leave". 