Bhante Subharo<p>Something that's been concerning me for a long time is how people don't want to leave social media platforms, even when they turn more toxic. The term these days is "enshittified". </p><p>I, for one, really appreciate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> for allowing one the ability to migrate from one instance to another, thereby not losing one's ever-so-precious "social graph".</p><p>Another interesting example of not losing one's "Social Graph" (in a migration from one server to another) is <a href="https://c.im/tags/Deltachat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deltachat</span></a>, which uses "AEAP" ("Advanced Email Address Porting").</p><p>I think these awesome migration features should be praised more. Taking such control back, over one's social graph is no small victory these days. Such ease of migration is a bulwark against enshittification; it's the easy ability to move elsewhere.</p><p>Note: <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> has a comparable tradition of such protection through migration: once monks and nuns gain their "independence", they are much more free to wander from one monastery to the next.</p>