Is there a way of migrating a fediverse account to Nostr?

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No, and there shouldn't be. The two things sound like they promise similar things, but they have different meanings when they make those promises.

Fediverse: censorship resistance = no central point of control, but thanks to Fred Block and his acolytes, censorship can make you uncontactable to a large segment of the network. Instance admins can kick local users off the server, and can ban remote users & instances from contacting local users, leaving you to migrate to another server, hope that server isn't blocked, and hope that your contacts auto-followed the new account.

Nostr: censorship resistance = no central point of control, but relay admins can kick you off or filter your content without your consent or knowledge; you can hop to another relay to avoid censorship, but how do your "followers" know what relay(s) you're using today when your relays got #NostrBlock'd yesterday.

Yeah, that's a great reason to switch to Nostr. So why shouldn't you be able to?

With #[4]'s new mostr.pub bridge that should be possible.

>how do your "followers" know what relay(s) you're using today when your relays got #NostrBlock'd yesterday.

They probably won't get blocked all at once, so you can migrate a bit at a time. Anyway, I was talking more about migrating follows, not followers.

In other words, "No, there is not".