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Is there some backing for the idea that it's intentional? There's not technical reason that we couldn't implement migrations.
It's an open source project. Anybody can fork it and create a separate and incompatible network. What they're is, is lack of interest in allowing frictionless for the users. Which would streamline onboarding.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
This long standing issue, which has been closed before, most be completed before the users can sign-up without worry what their instance owners thinks.