Is there a tool in the works to move about the fediverse?
One of the biggest benefits of the fediverse is that you can see everything and if the person running the instance decides to enshitify it, you can move and lose very little. It’s one of the entire reasons people have been coming here.
When the entire reddit migration was happening many people were told to join any instance. It didn’t matter which one because you could see everything on any of them.
We now know that’s not the case. Beehaw was controversial for blocking certain instances. Lemmygrad is controversial because of their politics. Lenny.world is controversial because no one knows if it’s even working half the time. The instance you pick matters and not everyone has the resources to make their own.
You could join an instance today and then in a couple years your instance owner starts blocking a bunch on stuff that you want to see.
Now, making a new account on another instance is always possible. But what about your comments? Your post history? I look through mine occasionally for videos people have shared with me when I’ve asked for help and such. Not to mention, if people follow you having a way to move them to your new account would be nice.
It shouldn’t be difficult to export everything as a .cvs file. And then the next step would be to have a fediverse wide excepted input process. Everyone in the fediverse, be it mastodon, Lemmy, or kbin would have a button users can “export” their profile to and then upload to a new instance or even platform.
I know moving about the fediverse is easier than other social medias but that doesn’t mean it could be easier and that ease of use could be very beneficial to users