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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by eropple on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:00PM (#36545534)
> I've been able to switch mastadon instances without any problems; most instances seem to handle whatever activitypub machinery transfers followers.

But none of your content goes with, and that's really terrible because it gives a lot of power to petty-kingdom jackass admins.

AT Protocol is heartening because maybe they've got a good solution to that.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by alphager on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:31AM (#36548995)
You can export your content on the old insurance and import on the new instance
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by eropple on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:38AM (#36551238)
That doesn't actually work, though. Old links don't update or forward to matching instances of your toots on Mastodon. They're isolated. It's a bad experience.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by gcr on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:04PM (#36674814)
That's a good point. It would be nice to have a streamlined export flow that rewrites your links for you.

(It's technically possible to edit the links in the posts you exported yourself before importing, but technically correct isn't the best kind of "correct")

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