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On digital migrations
Digital migration is not a linear process, and the metaphor of migration itself has its limits. Unlike geographical migration, a digital one is not always unilateral and not always exclusive. A user can be co-present in multiple online worlds, and navigate in a “multi-tool setting” as their online personas and threat models are intrinsically multiple. Users may be present on both WhatsApp and Element, or on Twitter and Mastodon, and often cross-post on several platforms manually (or using automated solutions, bots or bridges – before it became restricted by Musk), in order to negotiate parts of their online identity as well as multiply their online presence, and address different target groups associated with those platforms contributing to several distinct technocultures.
(exerpt from our article accessible here:
https://hal.science/hal-03930548v1/document)
@Xeniax in james scott's "the art of not being governerned" he describes various practises of fluid identities -- people maybe lived for 10 years in a city-state and then evaded famine or conscripting and went to the hills/woods and then joined this group, then maybe another, and would even sometimes return to the city-state (after a few years) -- identify was far less fixed than what we are used to in the current "national-state-with-strict-boundaries" worlds.