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You're 100% right, I think we do a lot more to stop content rotting like this. Now it's half gone, with any contributions from other instances unable to federate, fracturing any more conversation.
Maybe we need to do two things:
The migration one is tricky, because ActivityPub is very tied to urls. I guess that you could make dummy account for the conversation you brought over, so you'd at least have a read-only record.