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@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @Gargron@mastodon.social I remain baffled that easier account migration still isn't on their roadmap. Other fedi services, such as *key servers, implement the functionality to import content archives as well as take followers with you if you change instances. There's no technical barrier to Eugen doing the same.
Having one big onboarding server wouldn't be such a problem if users could hop around the fedi without having to painstakingly rebuild all their previous posting history and interactions. 🤷🏻♂️
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world
The technical side is apparently relatively easy, if I understand correctly the main problems are in resources and moderation.
If someone has e.g. 5000 posts including attached media and they want to import it, this takes up a lot of server resources and produces a potentially very great moderation burden. What if these posts contain stuff that is forbidden in the new server's rules? And how does a small server cope with people suddenly importing massive archives?