CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@wesdym @matt If I may: I don't think it will work like in the past. In the 1st migration to Mastodon and Bluesky, there were reports that accounts on X with those handles in their profiles were shadow banned. But even if they're not, the majority will not change platforms because EC moved (change "EC"" by "a couple of friends", it's the same - network effects). I've seen too many people creating accounts elsewhere finding they didn't have the same stream of info/same contacts and went back.
On the other hand, there is no technical reason why someone on Mastodon cannot follow and talk with someone on X - even Facebook made a bot inside MySpace to make people move platforms easier (many years ago I used Friendfeed, and I followed and talked with my contacts on Facebook and Twitter, without having to go to Facebook or Twitter).
But there is a legal obstacle today: DRM law, which states no one can break DRM even for legal purposes. No company or community will create a platform like Friendfeed today because they would have to break DRM at some point and would be taken to court.
If the European Commission really wants to solve the big platforms problems, they need to get rid of article 6 from the 2001 Copyright Directive. Doctorow has a really insightful talk about how and why to do this: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition