I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration.
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@misty it's just sad at this point
@vyr Yeah…
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty feels like someone took the dns registrar transfer and made it for people.
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty
I'm enjoying being here, but there was a moment recently where I stumbled across some discourse about the main instance being too big and excited talk about just blocking it. I said I'd switch instances if it was easier. I was told it is easy, and was linked multiple times to a FediTips guide that said itself "it's kind of a pain and it might not fully work".
Anyway... I agree.
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty christ who is it this time
(I'm also out of patience for This Sort Of Thing In General)
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty When I come across this issue personally, I had to check the project for a PR about this. Naturally it had stagnated the same way a lot of other quality of life issues had that people want but the authors don't.
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty One thing (maybe the only thing) I think Nostr does right (or better than ActivityPub) is giving you local control of your identity.
If I could just host a JSON file on my site and use some public keys for Mastodon, Pixelfed or whatever it would be awesome.
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@misty christ who is it this time
(I'm also out of patience for This Sort Of Thing In General)
@ifixcoinops @misty mstdn.ca
Admin (who hosts the server in his homelab) is in some legal difficulties pertaining to a missing few hundred thou Canadian.
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty @sstephenson why not treat it more as ephemeral chatter rather than content needing a forever home? That’s what I use a blog for.
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@misty @sstephenson why not treat it more as ephemeral chatter rather than content needing a forever home? That’s what I use a blog for.
@getajobmike @misty I’m good with ephemerality when it’s my choice! Not so much when it’s someone else’s whim or circumstances. And I think most people don’t have the necessary context when they pick an instance and create an account
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@getajobmike @misty I’m good with ephemerality when it’s my choice! Not so much when it’s someone else’s whim or circumstances. And I think most people don’t have the necessary context when they pick an instance and create an account
@sstephenson @getajobmike @misty
I treat toots more like in-the-moment thing but I still want to preserve it. Because while it's not the most refined and evergreen it's still kinda a reflection of me.This is kinda why I went with my own instance.
More on topic, migration is in the works for Mastodon (and ActivityPub as a protocol) but meanwhile you can use Slurp to import a Mastodon export archive.
slurp
slurp - tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances
Codeberg.org (codeberg.org)
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty or proper single instance support - only using the server for authentication and post exchange similar to email send (SMTP) and receive (POP3/IMAP).
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I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.
@misty There are 2 issues. The people you follow. This is easier to migrate as you can export list from old server and upload it to new one. New one then makes all the requests to remote servers to send such and such's traffic to your instance. (Old server technically still gets those messages too).
The second partis harder. The old server needs to send authenticated "forwarding" request to everyone that follows you so they now follow you on new server.
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