Lohan GunaweeraJul 25, 2023

Dear all, I am making an attempt at migrating to @[email protected] and using it as my primary microblogging account. Please follow me there.

If all goes well, I will archive this account at mastodon.social.

Being on your own server is the most comforting thing these days. What can go wrong? :)

Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@lohang I am happy to report that the migration to Pleroma has been a success :) The new server is running really well. Many thanks to those who make #yunohost, making #selfhosting easy for the rest of the world.

#Pleroma seems to be incredibly resource efficient! It is still running on a 16 GB VPS with just 1GB of RAM.

The contact import did not go as well as I expected. Only a 1/3 of my follows were imported. I will be adding the rest of you manually over the next few days.

Even though I am more comfortable with Mastodon's four column layout, I can certainly get used to the default Pleroma frontend. I don't want to install anything that was not included in the default installation yet. Later I will give Bloat (a javascript-free front-end) a try. Most importantly, I can continue to post from the familiar mobile app Fedilab.
Show threadالتنينوكسAug 2, 2023
@[email protected] @lohang Hello lohang. How is migration doing? What were you able to migrate?
Show threadLohan GunaweeraAug 2, 2023
@dragnucs It went really well, and I like it here!

Like I said before in this thread, the contact import did not work well. I am yet to follow the rest of them manually.

(Let me click that button right now and follow you ... done!)

:)
Show threadالتنينوكس
@lohang So what has been migrated then? If it is not following/followers and posts?
Aug 2, 2023 at 2:07pmWeb
Show threadLohan GunaweeraAug 2, 2023
@dragnucs I - LohanG - migrated to a new instance, my own #selfhosted place. I am the person who migrated :)

About 1/3 of my follow list has been imported. Something must have gone wrong either with my export from Mastodon or the import to Pleroma. I am okay with adding the rest of it manually.

The posts cannot be moved because they are bound to the address of origin and copied to many other instances from there. Those who followed me at the old address will have to follow me here. There is no way to automate that part.