As long as switching means starting over, challenger social apps can't compete with the dominant platforms.
We joined Europe's builders to ask Brussels for one structural change: let people take their identity, content and network with them, by giving every account a personal data server
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One of the main reasons atproto was created was to address the problem of account portability.
@pfrazee.com that sounds like it was created for a problem that didn’t really exist?
(because moving and relinking works, as long as it’s not required too often)
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Bei #Mastodon kann man aber keine Posts mitnehmen…
@negs.info man kann alle Posts exportieren und importieren und die Kontakte mitnehmen.
Also die Posts auch mitnehmen.
Ablauf:
- auf dem alten Server die Posts exportieren.
- ID auf den neuen Server umziehen.
- auf dem neuen Server die Posts importieren.
Als ich damals von mastodon.social auf hessen.social geswitched bin konnte ich keine Posts mitnehmen…
@eurosky.social Mastodon already has a standard for taking your connections with you that works in real life.
Why not adopt that instead of proposing a new one?
Also the comparison has a glaring gap: it leaves out Mastodon.