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So it seems it suffers from the same issue that Dispora has (or had for all the time I followed): No decent user migration? That is, it seems I pick an instanc

So it seems it suffers from the same issue that Dispora has (or had for all the time I followed): No decent user migration? That is, it seems I pick an instance (or host my own, but still: I pick a host) and can never move without losing all stuff? If I join one of the big instances to play around and later want to self-host I'm .. out of luck? That's quite sad. Still far better than Twitter I assume and I will give it a try. But I would've felt better knowing that I can take my ball and play elsewhere when I feel like it. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/migratory-accounts/268 https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/migratory-accounts/268

progval 9y ago
An account migration feature is getting closer. An update earlier this month added the possibility to download a dump of all your toots, boosts, and likes.
- bscphil 9y ago
  OT: It doesn't bother me personally, but I'll never understand why they added an unnecessary barrier to entry like that. Not many serious people are going to join a platform that risks them getting quoted in the press as "X tooted that ...". I guess it was supposed to be a funny parody of twitter?
  - gkya 9y ago
    I'm not sold on "tweet" either. It sounds childish and weird. I'd rather have "X posted on Twitter/Mastodon/whatnot where he said ...".
    - saurik 9y ago
      But tweet was't an existing word.
      - ChristianBundy 9y ago
        tweet (n): the chirp of a small or young bird
        saurik 9y ago
        Woah. Huh. I totally managed to never notice that. FWIW, the place I was going was "the only place where toot normally comes up as a word is when people talk about the sound of a fart or in the phrase 'to toot your own horn', which is way too close to home".
        saurik 9y ago
        (And "tweet" still does not feel like "a word" in the way that "toot" does. I would want to see a survey done, as a random dictionary is not how you define if a word exists, to the extent to which a word can exist at all.)
        Terretta 9y ago
        Tweet dates to 1851, myriad examples: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 Chaucer came up with twitter: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/chaucer-coined-twitter/322107/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/ch... Craig Hockenberry applied the one to the other: http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - kstrauser 9y ago
    It's exactly like email in this way. They could quote bscphil@evildomain.email, too.

progval 9y ago

An account migration feature is getting closer. An update earlier this month added the possibility to download a dump of all your toots, boosts, and likes.

bscphil 9y ago
OT: It doesn't bother me personally, but I'll never understand why they added an unnecessary barrier to entry like that. Not many serious people are going to join a platform that risks them getting quoted in the press as "X tooted that ...". I guess it was supposed to be a funny parody of twitter?
- gkya 9y ago
  I'm not sold on "tweet" either. It sounds childish and weird. I'd rather have "X posted on Twitter/Mastodon/whatnot where he said ...".
  - saurik 9y ago
    But tweet was't an existing word.
    - ChristianBundy 9y ago
      tweet (n): the chirp of a small or young bird
      - saurik 9y ago
        Woah. Huh. I totally managed to never notice that. FWIW, the place I was going was "the only place where toot normally comes up as a word is when people talk about the sound of a fart or in the phrase 'to toot your own horn', which is way too close to home".
        saurik 9y ago
        (And "tweet" still does not feel like "a word" in the way that "toot" does. I would want to see a survey done, as a random dictionary is not how you define if a word exists, to the extent to which a word can exist at all.)
        Terretta 9y ago
        Tweet dates to 1851, myriad examples: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 Chaucer came up with twitter: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/chaucer-coined-twitter/322107/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/ch... Craig Hockenberry applied the one to the other: http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/
- deleted 9y ago
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- kstrauser 9y ago
  It's exactly like email in this way. They could quote bscphil@evildomain.email, too.