TL;DR: The current Mastodon-signup is only removing the confusion of users on first glance, because it either hides the server-choice altogether, or leaves them with a choice that is impossible to make at this point of their Mastodon-journey. Instead, it should introduce them to decentrality on a lower scale, with a handful of handpicked servers to choose from, such that the decision makes sense to them and shows them the merits and fun of the concept instead of scaring them away. Ideal would be to give them a sense of agency. Then, chances are higher that they consider migrating again in the future and eventually internalize it as a permanent option of the digital world.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious about the state of account migrations right now. Ideally it should be super easy and it should strengthen the Fediverse if people can hope platforms with ease when an admin isn't behaving as they should.

One technical challenge might be deletion

Admins need to be able to delete or quarantine harmful / illegal content
You can't move instances if an admin suddenly comes along and deletes everything

Could on-device backups be a thing? The collective userbase takes up a lot of storage, but each individual person probably doesn't upload more than their phone can store. It might also incentivize them to not spam large files

[–] starman@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Account migration and backup are features of lemmy v0.19

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3976

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