Mastodawn

🇪🇺Jan 6, 2023

Pro-Tip: Migrating servers doesn't *have* to mean losing ALL your history ✨ it's not complex✨

- Set up a new account on your new server
- Follow your old account
- BOOKMARK your best old account posts (say 20-30)
- Perform the standard migration process, which links old and new accounts
- BOOST your OWN old bookmarked posts from old-to-new, giving you a starting timeline, then your #Introduction

Sharing as I did this back in early November when I moved 💫 and found it useful #TwitterMigration

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Scot Hacker Jan 6, 2023

@Natasha_Jay As a workaround, it's creative. But I'd really love to see a good explanation for *why* posts aren't migrated in a so-called "migration." I've heard there is some technical challenge that's not easy to solve, but what is it?

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Nemo_bis 🌈

@shacker See the #Mastodon issue tracker https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19902 @Natasha_Jay

Support post migration for already-known posts and media · Issue #19902 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch When migrating an account to a new instance, the user should have the possibility to also migrate their own posts with their media. Because this presents all sorts of issues, such a feature s...

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Scot Hacker Jan 7, 2023

@nemobis @Natasha_Jay Excellent read, thanks. Much more complicated than I’d imagined.