Really glad they wrote this piece. I migrated once and it really is disruptive despite how much of it works and is possible. As Erin highlights, there’s a lot that accumulates with your account on social media, especially mastodon where things designed to be more personal.

Generally, these issues highlight how much the fediverse lacks in terms of making things better for users. Arguably, the fediverse doesn’t care about users at all, it cares about servers/instances, and us users are literally just numbers.

And, as Erin says, there’s a ~~king~~long road of prototyping from here onwards. With BlueSky, provided it can work, it seems the general lesson would be to create architectures that aren’t flat like the fediverse (where all instances are more or less the same) and instead have multiple roles and services that interact. We might all, for example, run our accounts out of effectively single-user instances, but then connect to communities hosted on dedicated servers and then use separate again search engines and moderstors and feed aggregators etc with maybe something like DNS can help keep everything together.