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With ActivityPub you have to build... actual relationships with people (yes also those that do the work and walk the walk!)

I know that for Twitter-brained people this is considered an anti-feature (and yes account mobility is an issue), but a PITA to use it really is not

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I made my account on a server that a personal friend span up. Said friend deleted it on a whim after a few months after not using it much, not really aware of the implications. Personal connection was not the issue here, ownership of my digital identity was.

Besides, people sometimes have fallings-out.

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