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You've lost your posts. Of course keeping your followers is important. But having a new empty wall was a real problem for me. I didn't know it. Nobody told me
by maelito 2y ago
You've lost your posts.
Of course keeping your followers is important. But having a new empty wall was a real problem for me.
I didn't know it. Nobody told me, from the people to the interface that I would lose my 3500 messages. It's like having your blog content on another domain in the hands of another host, that can shut your old page down when he wants.
It's the perfect walled garden in terms of content.
Also, the instance where I was had its backup feature down for months. Finally, the followers migration failed at 80 %.
- dangsux 2y ago[dead]
- walterbell 2y agoIs this doc page incorrect, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-one-server-to-another/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-on... > On this page you can also download a copy of your archive that can be read by any ActivityPub software. This archive includes all of your posts and media. So even if the instance that you are moving from shuts down, as is the case with KNZK, you will still have a copy of all of your posts!
- kazinator 2y agoThe problem is you want all those old posts to be associated with the new (migrated) account on the new instance and be hosted there. Sure, being able to get an archive is nice.
- walterbell 2y agoPresumably it's not a technical limitation, since an importer could be written and added by some instances, even if not accepted upstream. If the lack of import is caused by policy conflict or cost for administrators to review bulk-imported content, does this encourage individuals to have a paid instance to aggregate historical content, e.g. https://masto.host https://masto.host.
- maelito 2y agoThis is just a legal requirement in the EU. Nothing more. It doesn't make this archive useful.
- bachmeier 2y ago> You've lost your posts. A couple of solutions: (a) post them on a website and put a link in your new Mastodon profile, or (b) use something like mastodon.py https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html to post them to your new account.
- sbarre 2y agoDoes it copy over all the comments and interactions as well? Does the old server redirect to your new account if someone linked to your old post(s) from somewhere else?