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Re:I Regret Migrating to Codeberg by fuglede_ on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:06AM (#49033835)
But if you are going to self-host, then you can also self-host a Mastodon server and never have to migrate anywhere; wouldn't that achieve the same effect?
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Re:I Regret Migrating to Codeberg by inigyou on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:43PM (#49038221)
Yes.
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Re:I Regret Migrating to Codeberg by danpalmer on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:23PM (#49042830)
No it wouldn't, because each Mastodon server can choose who to federate with and many servers don't federate openly or don't federate with smaller hosts for technical, scaling, or even political reasons.

I've done it, self hosted Mastodon limited my ability to participate in the social network in a way that it does not on ATProto.

Also you can't port between instances. Whereas this is fundamental to the ATProto ecosystem.

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