this is so fucking stupid though. almost everyone reads books and/or watches movies, and their speech is developed from that. the way we speak is modeled after characters and dialogue in books. the way we think is often from books. do we track down what percentage of each sentence comes from what book every time we think or talk?

OR, after changing the ID, have the instance publish a “domain_change_notification” that all federated instances would be listening for and then they would update their data.

ah ok. well then there would need to be a deeper change and all instances would need to update. have a field for the ID of the instance itself, and a field for the domain. or something like that. would that work?

i don’t think that that would be too difficult to implement

AFAIK there is no reasonable way to update/change this. IDs are forever.

can’t you just run a postgresql query to update all the post ids?