Comment by OmarShehata
Comment by OmarShehata 2 days ago
A lot of users/communities are stuck because of network effects & the long history of posts (they still reference them, like living wikis)
These pipeline tools can help people migrate if they want without losing that history & network (my prediction is once people see what's possible with an open API, that'll further motivate user migration, or for twitter to open up again)
> the long history of posts (they still reference them, like living wikis)
As someone with a multitude of cat photo threads, 100x this.
While I'm around on Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, the "post history" aspect is my most pressing issue with Mastodon. Like, when you move your account, you cannot take your old posts to the new server - you're straight out of luck if your instance decides to call it quits for whatever reason. And even if the instance doesn't give up, being unable to view old(er) photos is something I very commonly notice on a bunch of Mastodon servers.