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And, to continue the email analogy [in response to all the "Just change servers if you don't like the one you signed up for"]

If you don't like your email provider, just change to a different one...

Oh yeah. And you'll lose all your previous emails. But we won't mention that.

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Actually on Mastodon you can change servers and keep your followers and follows.

It has a built in mail forwarding process.

I don't think you can move your old posts, though, FWIW.

But it's an analogy intended to help with the server selection process; I don't think it has to be perfect.

You can use a script to download old toots and automatically repost them, backdated, to a new server. A lot of people do this when moving email servers.

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