@Guinevere@girlcock.club agreed. as an alternative to this, however, there are also some protocols for easy account migration between disparate systems.

adopting one of those would be a bit more transparent than a chain and just as effective, because you would retain all of your data in a way that makes sense

downside? this would require coordination between the activitypub serve developers.

and, i have noticed that mastodon is dominant enough that it tends to dictate these things