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Anyone following your old account will automatically follow the new account. The only thing that does not transfer is your post history, for mostly technical re

Anyone following your old account will automatically follow the new account. The only thing that does not transfer is your post history, for mostly technical reasons. I don't know anything about pleroma, sorry. I do know that mastodon uses a ton of resources when you get a lot of users, but for <5 you can use anything including a raspberry pi

phpisthebest 4y ago
This will not happen is the Admin of the server you are one chooses to block the server you want to move to.... Mastodon has long become a political project ever sense their very public dispute with Gab... They ceased to be a neutral project and clearly showed the limitations of the federation space when it comes to putting users in control, as that control is largely symbolic and just like centralized system unless you run your own server, and you do not run afoul of the project dev team so you do not get put on a default deny list then you are not in control of your data
- rolenthedeep 4y ago
  You're complaining that you can't migrate your account to a Nazi server. This sounds like a feature, not a bug.
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    ahh yes, everyone you disagree with is a Nazi...... I figured that tired, worn out, dead horse would be dead now but I guess not
    - boston_clone 4y ago
      > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab >> Part of a series on Antisemitism https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-twitter-antisemitism/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-... yeah, kinda checks out.
      - the_third_wave 4y ago
        boston_clone 4y ago
        Huh? 250+ citations that support their assertions are all just some part of a narrative? The CEO being a holocaust-denying anti-semite is just coincidental? Their SEC filing saying Gab is meant for nationalists and conservatives was a mischaracterization of their own platform? Being dropped from a litany of service providers for violating hate speech policies (and abject / nonexistent moderation against it) were fabrications? That sounds like a denial of reality…
        the_third_wave 4y ago
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        boston_clone 4y ago
        "they're not neo-nazis, they're just self-identified nationalists and anti-semites! and yeah okay the platform has a ton of neo-nazis, and the CEO of the platform is a holocaust denier and says Jews should die, but c'mon! free speech!"
  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    No, it sounds like censorship. Apart from the fact that Gab is not a "Nazi server" just like your average Mastodon server is not a "Communist server" even though there may be some neo-Nazis on the former and are sure to be a number of communists on the latter it sounds like a petty action by the project maintainers if certain servers are blocked by default. It sounds like a form of digital McCarthyism. I'll have a look at the Pleroma source to see if they also engage in this type of ideological censorship. If not it sounds like Pleroma is the better alternative, being both lighter as well as (hopefully) free from censorship.
    - rolenthedeep 4y ago
      If it sounds petty, you should find the actual story. People generally don't take such extreme measures as banning an entire server from the network with no reason.
    - the_third_wave 4y ago
      Having checked the Pleroma source [1] I can state that there are no default domain or user blocklists. It does support blocking on domain and user level but it is up to the administrator to provide blocklists. [1] https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma

phpisthebest 4y ago

This will not happen is the Admin of the server you are one chooses to block the server you want to move to.... Mastodon has long become a political project ever sense their very public dispute with Gab... They ceased to be a neutral project and clearly showed the limitations of the federation space when it comes to putting users in control, as that control is largely symbolic and just like centralized system unless you run your own server, and you do not run afoul of the project dev team so you do not get put on a default deny list then you are not in control of your data

rolenthedeep 4y ago
You're complaining that you can't migrate your account to a Nazi server. This sounds like a feature, not a bug.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  ahh yes, everyone you disagree with is a Nazi...... I figured that tired, worn out, dead horse would be dead now but I guess not
  - boston_clone 4y ago
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab >> Part of a series on Antisemitism https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-twitter-antisemitism/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-... yeah, kinda checks out.
    - the_third_wave 4y ago
      - boston_clone 4y ago
        Huh? 250+ citations that support their assertions are all just some part of a narrative? The CEO being a holocaust-denying anti-semite is just coincidental? Their SEC filing saying Gab is meant for nationalists and conservatives was a mischaracterization of their own platform? Being dropped from a litany of service providers for violating hate speech policies (and abject / nonexistent moderation against it) were fabrications? That sounds like a denial of reality…
        the_third_wave 4y ago
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        boston_clone 4y ago
        "they're not neo-nazis, they're just self-identified nationalists and anti-semites! and yeah okay the platform has a ton of neo-nazis, and the CEO of the platform is a holocaust denier and says Jews should die, but c'mon! free speech!"
- the_third_wave 4y ago
  No, it sounds like censorship. Apart from the fact that Gab is not a "Nazi server" just like your average Mastodon server is not a "Communist server" even though there may be some neo-Nazis on the former and are sure to be a number of communists on the latter it sounds like a petty action by the project maintainers if certain servers are blocked by default. It sounds like a form of digital McCarthyism. I'll have a look at the Pleroma source to see if they also engage in this type of ideological censorship. If not it sounds like Pleroma is the better alternative, being both lighter as well as (hopefully) free from censorship.
  - rolenthedeep 4y ago
    If it sounds petty, you should find the actual story. People generally don't take such extreme measures as banning an entire server from the network with no reason.
  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    Having checked the Pleroma source [1] I can state that there are no default domain or user blocklists. It does support blocking on domain and user level but it is up to the administrator to provide blocklists. [1] https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma