Deborah PickettDec 7, 2022

Your Fedi account is probably run by a volunteer on a server with no Service Level Agreement. Downtime happens! Failures happen.

You should plan for outages by having another account on a server operated by someone else. Even if it’s just the mastodon.social account that you first signed up for. You can leave it dormant and redirected until disaster strikes.

You can cross-verify your two (or more) Mastodon accounts by putting the URL of one account into the four metadata fields of the other account. Don’t forget the https:// prefix!

Show threadBernard SheppardDec 7, 2022

@futzle Great advice! Now I regret doing a migration before setting up the cross verify that you suggested. Ahh well, I'll sort that out, something for tomorrow, if I don't go and stand up my own instance :)

BTW, I recognised your name immediately from https://test-ipv6.com.au/ which was useful when I was first getting IPv6 working at home.

Test your IPv6.

This will test your browser and connection for IPv6 readiness, as well as show you your current IPv4 and IPv6 address.

Show threadDeborah Pickett

@BernardSheppard Yep that’s me, IPv6 connected since 2010 thanks to Internode. 😊

You can cancel the redirect, set the cross-verifications, then add the redirect back (there’s a partly hidden “only redirect, don’t move followers” option), it should only take you ten minutes.

Dec 7, 2022 at 11:32amWeb
Show threadBernard SheppardDec 8, 2022
@futzle Just got myself @bj set up as an exercise those with too much time on my hands and a need to learn more sysadmin and docker. Now struggling with working out how to get that green tick working which should be simple.