#ActivityPub question I’ve not yet seen discussed:
What happens if server admin wants to move from, say, #Mastodon to #Calckey? Is there a way to do that without essentially nuking all user accounts and starting over? How deep does the ability to migrate go, or should it go?
I guess, same thing as with migration from Drupal to WordPress etc. SQL export is always possible, but unless someone writes migration software to convert between each one’s data structures that can be only imported into another instance of the same software.
@mjx
> How deep does the ability to migrate go, or should it go?
Not very deep. Account portability is one of the reasons BlueSky give for creating AT Protocol. If accounts were fully portable between any two fediverse instances, using methods specified in future versions of the Activity protocol (or in FEPs that extend it), it would be possible to set up the new instance and give users of the old one a one-click way to migrate to the new one. They would also have the option to go elsewhere.
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