I know I'm opening myself up for an onslaught of responses I won't understand, irrelevant replies, and redundant replies, but I'm asking anyway: I'm considering switching from Mastodon . social to mstdn . social. Stux is awesome, I need to break from zillions of bots as best I can. I've never […] - ThreadSky

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy • 94 days ago

I know I'm opening myself up for an onslaught of responses I won't understand, irrelevant replies, and redundant replies, but I'm asking anyway:

I'm considering switching from Mastodon . social to mstdn . social. Stux is awesome, I need to break from zillions of bots as best I can.

I've never […]

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depereo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff you'll lose your posts. Followers usually work well but you've got a large account - I'd recommend chatting to the instance admin to ask for some help.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@depereo Thx

emd.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff followers yes, posts no. I've moved once.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@emd Okay, I can just not delete my account and keep the posts for awhile.

emd.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I don’t really mind folks who delete posts etc. we shouldn’t expect persistence in social media, imo.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@emd The ONLY reason I like keeping my posts is that I refer back to them. But only for awhile. Honestly, no biggie.

emd.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff ya I have mine set to auto-delete after a while. Who needs the hassle of folks dragging up old things.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

2/ Okay, thanks everyone.

Since I'll be keeping this account, at least for awhile, I'll still have access to what I need until I don't need it anymore.

Meantime, if I do screw up the transfer, I can try again, because I'll keep this account for awhile.

I hope.

genxjamerican.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff

I wrote about my experience moving to hachyderm.io here. If you read it, I hope it helps.

https://www.genxjamerican.com/2023/02/15/exploring-mastodon-continued-moving-to-hachyderm-io/

pixelpusher220.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff Posts do not transfer; would be a fairly big nightmare as any existing links would break.

I've switched once and it was basically seamless. Might be a 'bit' slower switching off of the big instance, just because of load, but within a day tops I'd bet.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@pixelpusher220 That's Greek. Exporting to where?

pixelpusher220.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff

Go to your profile, Edit Profile, then go to
Export (see screenshot). Here you export your data from .social to files on your computer that you would then Import in the new instance.

The 'Request your archive' is all your data including posts ( I […] https://dmv.community/@pixelpusher220/113868016070612000

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@pixelpusher220 Ogod, what?

I understood about half of that. I'll save it.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@pixelpusher220 Do bookmarks?

stepheneb.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@pixelpusher220 @GottaLaff

@tokyo_0 developed a tool in Java to move posts. I have not used it.

https://mas.to/@tokyo_0/113820846935988428

GishgallopGirl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff watching this space, as I'm strongly considering making an instance for my podcast, in the future. Sometime in the next year.

cafechatnoir.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff

Thank you for mentioning you were doing this - I just got the follow notification from the new account and my very first thought was "HA! Fake account! Not gonna get me---oh wait, she did say she was moving instances."

JonChevreau.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff have you considered mstdn.ca? Seeing as you now live in Canada. No complaints here after being on it more than 2 years.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@JonChevreau I've considered a lot of instances, including Canadian ones, but since I have a relationship with Stux, it makes it very convenient if I need help.

ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@GottaLaff It works great for everyone who has moved to my server. However, I suspect you are an "edge case" of the person with possibly the most number of followers here on the Fediverse, LOL... so.... I expect you'll get a lot of strange error messages and it will eventually work, but take awhile.

GottaLaff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•94 days ago

@ai6yr I'll panic.

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