A simple technique called “POSSE” offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party social media platforms.
Great philosophy.
The problems you described about account and friends migration have been solved like 10 years ago though by Mike Macgirvin with nomadic identity (edit: and magic auth!) in Hubzilla for example. It enables you to move your account, friends and content anywhere seamlessly.
Mastodon has been lacking behind all this time. Only in UI is it more streamlined.
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