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Show threadDefend Democracy 🦋🌊Nov 18, 2022
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Has been glitchy and slow today. I guess the influx is causing that?
Show threadMarud Nov 18, 2022
@BobC7000 @mastodonusercount It depends of the instance you're on.
Mastodon.social is a big one, the little ones don't have issues.
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@marud @mastodonusercount
Would be fantastic if switching instances was much simpler and without losing your posts etc. Should work seamlessly.
Nov 18, 2022 at 11:27amMastodon for Android
Show threadMarud Nov 18, 2022
@BobC7000 The micro-blogging part of the fediverse never was around having an endless conservation of toots/notes/whatever_the_term_your_system_uses.

Masto and microblogging on the fediverse on a more global scale is around the human interactions, not being a journal of everything that was wrote. Services like blogs are more prone to that. Don't forget that for a service like this one it's also lots of datas that are hard to host, as they cost a lot of money to the admins. That's why some instances have policies that allow to automatically delete posts older than X days.

Migration by itself on Mastodon specifically is quite fine (just create another account somewhere else and switch something on your parameters).

#my2cents