Something I absolutely hate is that every time anyone brings up disappointment that it's not possible to migrate content when moving servers, someone always pops in to argue that, well, social media content is ephemeral and maybe it's fine that that's the case. Maybe it's fine for *you*, but dictating that everyone else should feel that way is pretty crappy. And, really, lecturing people that they shouldn't care about their posts is just going to drive them off the fediverse.

@misty sadly the real disconnect that i think people don’t realize is that the way the system is architected, it’s not “their posts”. the identifier is tied to their service provider’s domain, and the content is tied to their server’s database format. so it’s really “their service’s posts”. by making posts on the service, they give up control. solving this means letting users *actually* own their posts.

this should be made clear upfront so that we aren’t lying to people.