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by iteratethis
538 days ago
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"If the person who runs your server turns out to be imperfect in a way that you can’t endure, you can find another server, spend five minutes moving your account over, and you’re back up and running on the new server" He's completely wrong about how easy it is to move a Mastodon account to another server. First, your instance admins can completely wipe your account before you even have a chance to move. Second, you can't move an account, you create a new one on another server which produces a new handle. You can move followers over using some clunky process few users would understand. It can take up to 30 days to process and may require multiple tries. In case any blockage happens between your old and new server, it gets even trickier. Worse, your content cannot be migrated. It is forever stuck at the old server and at the whims of whoever runs it. Same for the redirect from your old account to your new account. If the point is to have a robust network where your account, content and followers/followings are safe...Mastodon is the worst. |
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Content migration isn't implemented yet, and as someone who's migrated a few times more than I can remember (three or four, possibly more), that's a bit of a PITA. But it is on the roadmap, and account migration in general has become far cleaner over the years, see note at bottom of:
<https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-on...>
I've been on the Fediverse since 2016, and in the several times I've migrated things have become far smoother.
At present you can migrate your followers, following, and blocked accounts:
<https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/>
Note that there are few if any proprietary / commercial services which afford anything remotely close to what Mastodon does, though blogging platforms probably permit import/export of content to a greater degree.