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You're asking for something generally known as "federation", which is the ability for various sites to work well to form a somewhat-decentralized network. Email works this way, as an example - you can send email to people regardless of which email provider they're using.

I really like federation!

The problem is that there's no well-known standard protocol for it, and our codebase doesn't support it. I'd actually love to add support to it, but it won't be useful if we support it and other sites don't.

There is a long-term plan I have in mind that might result in this happening, but I want to emphasize "long" and "might"; this is the kind of thing that maybe we start slowly working towards in a few months if this place hasn't just collapsed into flames, and it's going to be a lot of work to get it running at all.

Sure is a cool idea, though, isn't it? I'm right there with you.