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.
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)
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.