The great thing about the fediverse is if you still want to use mastodon, you can find a better instance that suits your needs, or run your own instance.
I understand that this is the concept, but in practice, it's a laughable recommendation.
Accounts aren't portable and running your own instance is an insurmountable task for most and the cost of it is not nearly worth it.
And then what? Write a script that systematically re-posts it all on your new account?
> and you can host mastrodon on a raspberry pie, what are you talking about
The amount of time and dedication required to do such a thing is not just outside of the ability of most people, but it is also not worth the effort for such a trivial thing as tweets.
This basically sends messages to your followers instructing them to follow your new account instead. This is all transparent to both you and your followers.
I just don't understand why people feel such a strong desire to cling to the federated servers model when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...
which ones are you thinking of?
As for your final remark, I really can't see a good way to handle such a situation at all. And I've never heard about any protocol that can handle it. What protocol are you talking about?
Any social tools built on top of a decentralized database would do it.
- https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db (3Box)
- https://github.com/amark/gun (Iris)
- https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ (Manyverse, Planetary)