RE: https://mstdn.games/@britt/116013094706931728

So, I helped Britt out with moving her instance to a new server provider this week.

While the people at toot.io were relatively helpful in our email chain (once she was finally able to get a hold of them in the first place anyways), the setup at toot.io was a bit strange and not optimized for an instance of her size. The actual server itself was well *over*powered for her to be seeing the slowdowns she was, and Mastodon & especially Postgres just weren’t using those resources to a full extent.

Honestly the biggest red flag 🚩🚩🚩 to me isn’t what toot.io is doing now necessarily, but that it was apparently sold(?) to completely new management without notice to customers. In a niche service industry like this, that seems like a big problem to me, to not even explain who’s taking over and why you should trust them.

The previous ownership is probably more at fault for this relatively speaking, but it’s probably a good opportunity for toot.io customers to reevaluate their hosting options… Even if you ultimately end up sticking with toot.io, you simply might not be fully aware of what’s going on over at your own hosting company anymore, and that’s always worth double-checking 👀

#MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #MstdnGames #InstanceMigration #Tootio

This next week I’ll migrate from this server to @bcn.fedi.cat. See you all there. In case something goes wrong, I’ll be there and will check back from time to time the rest of the year.

Aquesta setmana m’em vaig de @mastodon.cloud cap a @bcn.fedi.cat, els veig allà

En esta próxima semana estaré migrando de @mastodon.cloud a @bcn.fedi.cat

En teoría me los llevo a todos conmigo, pero por si de repente desaparezco, allá andaré.

#Migration #InstanceMigration #InstanceChange

New intro
(because that's what you do when you move to a new instance, right?)

I've just moved servers: from a self-hosted mastodon instance to a self-hosted gotosocial instance, everything is a work in progress.

In the meantime, I post in English and/or Dutch about politics (I try to CW), silly household solutions, cross stitch embroidery and patchwork quilting.

It seems most of my online presence is a work in progress (ignoring all previous instructions) while I try to DeBigTech my life.

Hi! 

I think this is my first introduction ever in de fediverse! ⁂

#NewIntroduction #InstanceMigration #SelfHosted

Anyone with experience for account / instance migration in pixelfed?

I migrated my account from pixelfed.ch to pixelfed.social, everything checked out well, but now after 2 days still have lost all (20) followers (on both instances), and my follows (50) are still on the old instance... Posts also have not migrated (although I did not even expect that would work)...

(already dropped a mail and a dm to their support, still waiting for response)

#pixelfed #migration #feditips #instancemigration

Dang, the #pixelfed instance I joined recently is shutting down at the end of next month. I was seemingly able to migrate my account to another instance, but that doesn't actually copy over any of my posts or anything. I haven't posted much but it'll be a hassle to manually re-make those posts...

#pixtagramdotsocial #fediverse #InstanceMigration

I am seeing spam replies from mastodon.social daily, and I'm sick and tired of reporting bots. Can anyone please recommend me an instance that has blocked mastodon.social? Bonus points if the server is located in Europe. I'm also fine if the main language of the server is German/Spanish/Italian.
Boost for visibility are appreciated

#instanceblock #instanceMigration #askFedi #mastodon_social #MastodonSocialAlternatives