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I think if there's anything we've learned at this point, it's that it's extremely hard to get users to leave a platform they have connections on. That's always the plan.
That's why bsky's pseudo-federation isn't as big a deal as some ActivityPub boosters claim.
As I understand it, if lemmy.world shuts down or starts demanding cash my only resource would be the same as if Facebook decides I'm too critical of billionaires -- start all over elsewhere with a new account. Sure, I could get close to the same experience with a different node, but I'd be a brand new account with no history. I might as well go someplace else entirely.
Bsky's "portable user" idea fixes that. There are accounts my bsky account follows who switched to blacksky, and if they hadn't said they'd changed I wouldn't have noticed. The essential identity of their account shifted almost seamlessly, and they "federate" with everyone else, aside that their appview shows accounts that bsky's ordinary moderation hides.
I don't have any illusions about how altruistic the cryptobro VC's are. But the entirely of their value proposition is that "leaving bsky" should be about as painless as porting your number from Verizon to AT&T.
AP accounts are also portable...
What? You tell me I could have actually moved all my comments, votes, saves and posting history from my old lemmy.world account to my new one?
Lemmy and PieFed are not analogous to BlueSky. That would be more Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, etc. So, in just about every other case, yes.
I couldn't do that when I moved Mastodon instances, I could only set up a notice that was little more than a built-in "Moved to x" pinned post
Don't know about the other ones though, I have to say that
Yes you can
I guess you're right, followers will automatically unfollow the old account and follow the new one too
Nothing will be moved.
Source: My old Mastodon account; The Mastodon docs (mastodocs for short)
How is this "moving" on BSky and not fedi?