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In fact, in support of decentralisation I've been wanting to move my account off of mastodon.social for a long time now, but have not found (or even know where
by Vinnl 6y ago
In fact, in support of decentralisation I've been wanting to move my account off of mastodon.social for a long time now, but have not found (or even know where to look - no, the instance picker doesn't give me enough information) an instance that gives me even the confidence of mastodon.social that it will remain around, which already is lower than twitter.com's.
(And ideally one that lets me maintain my own blocklist rather than doing that for me, but I'm already accepting that at mastodon.social, so that's not a deal-breaker.)
- 8bitsrule 6y agoI'd guess that most instances with several thousand users will be around for quite some time. There are lists that show that. Most instances have a public page you can check out to see the instance's vibe. EG https://mastodon.xyz/public https://mastodon.xyz/public , https://fosstodon.org/public https://fosstodon.org/public Once you've found a new instance, you can transfer your followers to it. This Feditips page tells how to move your 'mutes, blocks etc'. https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105317854827203241 https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105317854827203241 Remove that number at the end and there are a lot more Feditips. One tip: you can easily subscribe to any Mastodon account through an RSS reader ... add '.rss' to the account's public page, there's your feed!
- Vinnl 6y agoYeah I know how to move my account, I just don't know where to yet :) I don't really care about an instance's vibe, since I only check my follower timeline anyway. That said, only a user count (especially without knowing how many of those are actually active users) doesn't give me too much confidence; I'd like to know who's behind it, and how and why they're going to keep it online in the long term.