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Sounds like I will finally be able to move mastodon servers without losing the last year of interactions I’ve had! I moved once before and while my followers mo
by TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Sounds like I will finally be able to move mastodon servers without losing the last year of interactions I’ve had! I moved once before and while my followers moved, my content did not. The old account stayed there with all my content, with no direct link to my new profile unless I added it as a link in my new profile.
My current server has been very slow and I’ve wanted to move. I’ll wait till this is fully deployed and then give it a shot!
- mariusor 3y ago> Within the confines of Mastodon, it’s a relatively unknown concept. Mastodon are not known for adding support for other ActivityPub implementations extra features. I doubt they'll look into this any time soon.
- mdaniel 3y agoDo you happen to know if it's a bandwidth issue, and thus they (would/do) engage in good faith with PRs for such content, or it's a "our toy, our priority" type deal?
- mariusor 3y agoI have no idea. They do have multiple developers at the moment as far as I know, but maybe everyone focuses on the user interactivity instead. Regarding third party PRs again I don't know, I think they're open to it, but from previous interactions I had on their tracker, the review process might be quite stringent.
- skybrian 3y agoI’m not sure that the implementation is the real issue. Mastodon posts can be exported already. Writing the import code wouldn’t be that hard. But why would a Mastodon server’s admins want to let a brand new login post a big pile of backdated posts all at once? It seems spammy and the moderation workload scales with the number of posts. Maybe a dedicated archive would be better. It would be a matter of generating a static website from the export. Nobody else would need to moderate it, because it’s not their website.