as annoying as it is, you need to create your new account, then migrate the old into the new
You should keep followers and following
Everything else is lost in the process (you can export your archive in your settings to save that data first)
How to migrate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpI-SplOXVE
I cheeked out the homepage and saw a photo on the header. Shouldn’t you discourage use of an image on a resume?
doesn’t that put some people at risk to racial bias?
Oh man, you just got people’s pitchforks out
I am going to say I agree… to some extent. Misskey saw this and they introduced measures to allow ad hosting and such.
I’m not necessarily saying ads should be it **(**I hate ads myself), but if they are, we can certainly foster communities where the ads are from community members only? (they can advertise products, services for their community. Not without mod approval of course)
This could give admins complete control on wether their servers have or do not have ads.
BUT,
I think perks are a much nicer way.
Last I checked, the roadmap mentioned a paid accounts feature being explored.
I think what you are advising will be the direction mastodon takes with that.
The intent I am sure is NOT a monetization only deal, I’m sure it is intended to be optional and to support instances.
My thing is if we are going to have such a feature, why not allow rewarding the end user with some perks?
I think misskey allows admins to define user storage limits, and supporters get more right? Im love the sound of that. It helps prevent any 1 user from hogging up tons of storage, rewards those who support you.
I agree that allowing paid accounts and rewarding these users is a good thing.
Now as far as if an admin is profiting or not, we need a system kind of like open collective, or a crypto wallet (hear me out).
I would be more than happy with my user’s paid funds going into some sort of holding that all users can check at any given time.
I have a BTC address listed on my instance. It doesn’t have much, but it has more than enough to cover about 4 months of payments should anything ever happen to me.All my end users can clearly see the address, have access to a website to check it, and for those familiar you know damn well you can see all transactions publicly on this wallet, so I can’t lie and pull money out without it being trackable.
I do need to see how opencollective works though because one downside for my current method is my other admin will need to pull funds whereas open collective I think allows people to pay in and they pay the host?
Something like this would be ideal imo
The biggest difference I have noticed is that you can join a big server, and check out their live feeds, localtab
The content is very generalized, a massive scramble of languages and topics
If you look for a smaller server in contrast, but one aligned with your interests and check their live feeds, local section it is much more aligned with a community
The biggest difference I have seen is community. Big general servers feel like noise to me
Smaller servers feel like communities
Check your email, they can opt not to, but admins can and should send you an email with moderation notifications. Idk if mastodon.social specifically does not
It would make sense to me because of how massive their server is, if they notify everyone about every single moderation action, that creates tons of support requests to further discuss it and they have limited resources
But a smaller server shouldnt skip that IMO
Im not familiar with tools like this, but one thing you can do is include a unique hashtag for your posts and after like 20 mins go check other instances for your hashtag to see if your post federated
I do this a little from time to time, but not only because I want to see if my posts federated, but also because I want to see if there’s posts I have not federated with on my instance that I would like to connect with
I havent done this, but a way to do this is create a bookmark folder on your browser, and go to multiple instances on joinmastodon.org
On those servers, go to your hashtag URL
Bookmark each server with this
Example with #cats:
https://mastodon.social/tags/cats
Once you have all of these in a bookmarks folder, whenever you want to check them all at once, hit the folder with your middle mouse button and it should open them all at once, then take a look around!
Online for me but in an errored state
Poor management?
I ended up using Cosmos Cloud instead, a little rougher around the edges, but love it
What instance are you on?
This behavior is if your admin configured your " Content cache retention period " to have ANY value. If this is configured, remote posts will delete after the specified amount of days.
If they are a newer server host, they may have configured this without fully understanding what this is. I did the same when I first started tbh, but if this isnt configured… hmm…
Depends if they self host or cloud host, maybe their host could be doing it? depends
Only thing I could recommend is attempting the web version maybe, but stuff like this is why I kind of would like GIFs to be natively supported.
If you would support the idea of A GIF search and posting being built into mastodon, would you mind commenting here showing your support?
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25742#issuecomment-1622065883
Post migration during account migration would be huge yeah, I get where you’re coming from
I’m just saying ease of use is a big thing, gifs work but are such a hassle to use compared to any other platfor.
someone can reply using a 3rd party keyboard like you said
But from a UX/UI perspective that’s so piss poor compared to every other platform lol
Mastodon should be freedom of choice but that shouldn’t be a hindrance either
Otherwise, other platforms such as threads will implement better features first, be better in general, people will choose that platform, and everyone’s gonna complain about how evil meta overtook activitypub/fedi
I’m just saying 🤷♂️😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
Because an gif, much like emoji, are awesome when used as a reaction and can provide a very visual emotion where text can be open to interpretation
With that logic, we shouldn’t have emoji for the same reason 🤷♂️
I mean, that’s one way to look at it.
But in the grand scheme of things, can we be angry at them for doing something better than mastodon? Isnt encouraging competition the play we should go for here?
Natively supporting gifs is not something proprietary by meta, or revolutionary by any means. Its included in most social networking/social media platforms outside of fedi and even by some inside fedi
Giphy is owned by shutterstock aparently, and in my github suggestion I had suggested tenor owned by google as I use their API in other projects already
In my opinion, Mastodon has been behind the curve of this long before threads announced support. Hence the feature request I made some time ago lined in the original post above 🤷♂️
If I’m on a server and I post something and someone (who is from other server) comments on my post does rules of server where I am apply to that comment?
Yes!, report the comment to your admin, they can block it from your server, can’t quite nuke it everywhere though. When you report the commend you also get an option to forward the report to their server and if its a decent server they should handle there too
Is it easy to change servers if I will have to?
- Yes!, but I recommend the guide you follow to be youtube videos as its easier to follow along than to read the steps it takes. There’s lots of easy to follow videos
Also which server would be a good option for me?
Technically, any since you can move if you dont like it. That said I highly recommend you look for a server that is 1: not one of the biggest 2: focused on a topic/interest you care about.
Being in a server that has a community you relate to definitely improves the quality of content in the local live feed
To find servers, check out:
Joinmastodon.org
Instances.social
mastodonservers.net
Thank you for this! Does this include volume data or do we have to manually back that up ourselves?
I’m wondering what the full process of recovery looks like, as if it’s a compose file of all containers, I imagine this would restore brand new services unless we handle the volumes right? Or does it also back up volume data as well?
What matters is not whether or not mastodon takes off. What matters is whether or not Fediverse takes off
Now as far as your political experience, I can say my last two instances have had very little to no political content. My current instance is my own, and we outright do not allow political shit lol
But even when I was on mastodon.social, I did not have lots of political content, I wonder who you followed or what hashtags you followed that were politically influenced?
Are there political servers? YES! Just as much as theres servers about cats, coffee, reading, art… There’s servers for anything, this is WHY you pick a server, you have the freedom to be part of a community of your choice and filter out junk you dont care about!
I promise you politics exist on every single social network.
Mastodon’s home feed does not show you something you did not follow (unless someone you follow boosts it)
And even then, the filters feature is dope AF, I have a filter for common political terms, and youtube/twitch links cause I dont really care for peoples live notifications
My experience is very curated, and very in line with what I want to see 👍