Erin M. May, PhDLooking into moving instances now that astrodon.social is up and running.
Looks like I can move my followers, but is it true that I can't move my posts? Will they disappear from this account? I hate to lose all my threads 😩
The Doctor@_astronoMay No, they'll still be there. You can also export and re-import them into your new account.
William W@drwho @_astronoMay you can export and import posts?? is that mastodon-wide? I couldn't figure out how when I first moved instance
@silico_biomancer @_astronoMay Yeah, I did it when I moved to hackers.town. To get a dump of your stuff:
Preferences -> Import and Export -> Data Export -> Request Your Archive
glitch.soc (which hackers.town runs) does not seem to have an option for re-importing your posts, only your follows, lists, and suchlike. This (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/981) makes the point that the possibility of abuse (forged or otherwise edited posts) is a considerable one. All things consider, denizens of the Fediverse seem to prefer not having a potential avenue of abuse here.
However, you can set up an account migration:
Preferences -> Account -> Account Settings -> Create an account alias
And on the old site:
Preferences -> Account -> Account Settings -> Move to a different account
That sets up a redirect on your old account that says "I've moved here," which helps the follow/followed account list function as expected.
@drwho @_astronoMay ah, yeah it was the import I was hoping for. Alas
@silico_biomancer @_astronoMay Thinking about it a little, it should be possible to write a utility that grinds through the CSV of exported posts and re-posts them, one at a time to the new instance's API. Thing about that is, the local timeline will go bonkers because you'd be flooding it.
How much stuff do you want to save?
@drwho @_astronoMay not enough to want to flood the TL