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Mark Steger :verified:

Mastodon's decentralized, distributed server system is good. It helps ensure against a failure of the whole system. But if migration of one's post history from one server to another isn't possible, then one big benefit of the distributed system is lost.

Nov 23, 2022, 05:20 PM·Public·Web
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@MarkSteger Agreed 100%. I am surprised the new instance doesn't point back to the older one, seamlessly, to display old posts. We can export stuff (including posts) but the import function doesn't support posts. Boo!

Lots of discussion on the feature request here:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

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Edit: the posts are still visible at newsie.social/@MarkSteger . Maybe use one of the 4 link thingies on the profile to point there? Annoying that we'd have to do this.

#177 – Support Account Migration – was closed after implementing follower migration, but this is only one small part of a true migration. To really be able to change instances, you need to be able ...
GitHubSupport Post Migration · Issue #12423 · mastodon/mastodonBy SilverWolf32
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