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Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left (infosec-handbook.eu)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

I saw this article on “hacker”news. For sure there are legitimate concerns about the Fediverse to be made. Maybe point 1 is one them - not being able to migrate data. But they don’t expand or make proposals on this, and instead go off on a tangent complaining about general online discourse and Twitter style microblogging in particular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, most of the arguments they raised fully applied to Twitter also, and some where factually incorrect. You can raise the maximum length of the posts if you self host, or chose to use something different from Mastodon altogether.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

I think saying that they can self host isn't a viable in this instance, maybe they don't wanna

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Worth noting that it's perfectly possible to migrate data between instances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

yeah but it doesn't migrate toots, right? It does migrate everything else though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Look like it won't migrate the data, here's what it says when I got to the option on my account:

This action will move all followers from the current account to the new account
Your current account's profile will be updated with a redirect notice and be excluded from searches
No other data will be moved automatically

However, you can do a data export and use the API to reload the data on the new account that way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

but still you can't import toots, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Why would you want to? Honestly asking. Toots are meant to be more in the moment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

I don't care, I think it is fine the way it is. But the first point of the article is

You can’t migrate your posts

so that's literally why I was clarifying that in the answer

Worth noting that it’s perfectly possible to migrate data between instances.

doesn't really help here, because it is just partly true.

So this is a fair point, if they really want this it's a reason to leave. A dumb one at that imo but I am being downvoted here for just stating facts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Ok fair enough. I didn't downvote you myself honestly you are saying anything that makes it reasonable to downvote imho.