This is a critical feature missing. Especially considering when one instance goes down, so does your account.
If announced, we should be able to easily transfer the account.
But an instance might also go down unannounced (especially now with so many hosting instances just for fun or to experiment with it).
While in such a case your posts and comments on this local instance will be gone, there needs to be a way to recover your account on another instance with all your posts and comments made on other instances still connected to your account, being editable or deletable.
For robustness against disappearance we kinda need multi-account linking. You set up accounts on a few trustworthy to be resilient instances and link them.
At the moment you are completely dependent on the instance [operator]. Which could disappear for a multitude of reasons.
The average user will be confused enough as it is about the federated aspects. They may choose any random instance to register. And suddenly it’s gone.
I’d love to see that implemented.
The developers have said they’re working on it, this is something the Fediverse supports. Kind of.
Not yet! I hope that eventually this is implemented. Mastodon had a similar problem and they kind of, sort of solved it?!
Interesting, how did they solve it?
It seems that the answer is complicated. Check this out: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-migrate-to-different-mastodon-server/
