Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon

Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon by boudin on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:21AM (#34128457)

Just pick one and try, there's no commitment anyway. You can access content from other servers anyway

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Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon by ummonk on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:31AM (#34128546)

Is there some way to carry over followers between addresses that I'm unaware of?

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Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon by notpushkin on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:58AM (#34128758)

Yes: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

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Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon by ummonk on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:06PM (#34128820)

How exactly do you do this after the instance admin has banned you?

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Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon by notpushkin on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:31PM (#34132182)

You don't. If your admin is a total dick and prevents you from migrating, you're screwed. If you have hundreds of followers, better reevaluate your initial choice of instance. If you have thousands of followers, host your own, or pay somebody to host it for you. This however doesn't matter if you're just getting started.

There are talks about detaching user identity from the instance. If this gets traction, this problem might be solved once and for all.

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