At first @film_girl dismisses worries about defaulting to mastodon.social as “drama and virtue signaling”.
Then she says that migrating from mastodon.social to elsewhere has a big cost because you “can’t take your posts with you.”
Well, this is why mastodon.social shouldn’t be set as the default server to join: stuff like full text search aren’t supported on it, while that feature is supported on other servers.
@steakfrite yeah, to do that, they’d have to be able to migrate posts from instance to instance, which right now is both not possible and the attempts to do that have been shut down (even by people who found solutions and wrote PRs). People pretend moving doesn’t have a cost, but it does. You can’t bring your posts with you.
