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It's a migration for the future, not a migration of your past content - understandable because that past content likely has references from other instances and
by fencepost 2y ago
It's a migration for the future, not a migration of your past content - understandable because that past content likely has references from other instances and pushing those changes across would be a heavy operation, unreliable, and probably fraught with potential security problems.
I believe for retaining content it's pretty much retaining it for yourself by downloading an archive, though some instances may allow uploading that. There's also at least one browser-based web app that lets you open and view the content of that archive - otherwise it's kind of useless.
Edit: https://github.com/zero-mstd/mav-z https://github.com/zero-mstd/mav-z
- maelito 2y ago> It's a migration for the future, not a migration of your past content - understandable because that past content likely has references from other instances and pushing those changes across would be a heavy operation, unreliable, and probably fraught with potential security problems. Yes of course I'm getting the technical and conceptual difficulties as a developer, but it's awful UX. It's a real deal breaker once you discover it. You cannot use Mastodon as your primary content database anymore.
- jeromegv 2y agoIt’s a social network. Do you expect Facebook or Twitter to be your primary content database? But I do agree UX could and should be better
- ethbr1 2y agoI think most people expect their Facebook and Twitter posts to be around in 5 years.
- jzb 2y agoI don’t. It’s naive to believe any social network is in it for the long haul. Too many have failed to believe they won’t as well. Particularly, exitter. It’s best to assume anything you don’t host yourself is ephemeral.
- chomp 2y agoAnd yet, I have Facebook posts that will be 20 years old next year. The attitude that “I’m distrusting of social media, therefore this major adoption blocker is fine as it exists” is why only techies have managed to adopt Mastodon, and is why that will be the limits of its adoption.
- nine_k 2y agoIt's then less like comfortable moving and more like fleeing or going on exile. You're happy to be still alive but you've lost all you had.
- kazinator 2y agoMigration for the future, LOL. Like stepping off a boat, with a suitcase and the shirt on your back. Except it's just another third world country, from which you will have to do it all over again.
- fencepost 2y agoFor people fleeing the rise of extremist content on Xitter, that seems an oddly appropriate analogy.