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The mastodon server I joined in 2022 is shutting down permanently. > Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive. Yeah totally similar to atproto 🙄

Elena Rossini ⁂

@elenarossini.com

23 Aug

Actually you can use the SLURP tool to move your archive. Many friends have done so, moving Mastodon and even Pixelfed accounts over to GoToSocial while preserving their entire archives: codeberg.org/vyr/slurp But yeah, I'm the first to admin ATproto is far superior at this

codeberg.orgslurptool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances

Caesar

@caesar.dev

23 Aug

Slurp is a super cool archiving tool, but it doesn't really (fully) solve the problem. It simply posts _new copies_ of your old posts on your new server. Because ActivityPub uses URLs as post IDs, it is not possible to actually move the old posts across. So links, boosts, likes, etc do not transfer.

Caesar

@caesar.dev

Correction: "ActivityPub uses URLs as post IDs" – it would be more precise to say that current implementations do so. I believe this is not totally an inherent limitation of the protocol, as it actually only requires URIs, so DIDs could in theory be used like in ATProto. I may be wrong here though…

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Emelia

@thisismissem.social

23 Aug

There are proposals and some niche implementations that allow content portability, but they're not the most popular implementations

Zsolt 📍🇭🇺🇪🇺 | ✊🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩🇦🇲🇧🇦

@zsoltsb.eu

23 Aug

ActivityPod and Holos Social come to mind as solutions.

Emelia

@thisismissem.social

23 Aug

afaik neither have object portability?

Zsolt 📍🇭🇺🇪🇺 | ✊🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩🇦🇲🇧🇦

@zsoltsb.eu

23 Aug

ActivityPods is based on Solid Pods, so you should be able to move your stuff over Solid easier, but the implementation is far from perfect. Holos is basically just a relay on holos dot social, & your data is primarily on your device. A bit like nostr, but with AP as the base, with the limits of AP.