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Gina C. Pieters, Ph.D.

Reflecting on the whole Twitter saga: it's really frustrating that I cannot take my posts with me (a huge cost-to-exit) and it's surprising that none of the alternatives are set up to do a scrape-and import as part of their attempt to woo new subscribers (reduce the switching cost). It seems all the components are there!

I appreciate that Mastodon allows me to move followers and follows between servers, but again: it does not allow the movement of posts, which just duplicates the lock-in.

Pretty sure that if any site let's me do that I'll move over really quickly.