I ... just could not agree more. Period. And it's not just Mastodon, it's essentially all of the ActivityPub based Fediverse (except maybe Hubzilla). It's something for which there are solutions out there (see the atproto/Bluesky PDS) and the more time passes, the more I fail to grasp why this hasn't been baked into ActivityPub ever since day one as a mandatory protocol feature.😬
The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!
RandomMusickMayhem (ON HOLD) hat dies geteilt.