Submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to fediverse@lemmy.world
I’ve seen a few comments in the other thread about community centrization
Your following, blocking, muting, and domain-blocking lists can be imported at Settings > Import, where they can either be merged or overwritten.
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations
docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export
Seems pretty similar to the way we manage it with Lemmy at the moment, am I missing something?
I believe there is some tenuous support for this in the underlying ActivityPub protocol but it’s not really implemented by anyone. I’m not sure if the protocol makes it easy.
If Lemmy, Mastodon and other ActivityPub apps supported protocol-level moving, you could in theory even move from Lemmy to Mastodon or vice versa, and not just from one app to the same app on a different instance.
Mastodon moves also take your following with you. You’ll still have to reimport followers, but you don’t lose your ““audience””.
There are software out there (Sharkey for microblogging (Firefish also had it but theirs was broken and leaked DMs), PixelFed for images from Instagram specifically) that allow some form of post imports, but these are only brand new posts that happen to have the same content as the old ones, and not “replacing the author of a post”.
There are work going on regarding nomadic identity and more seamless account migrations across instances, but hell will freeze over before any of the mainstream fedi software implement anything close to that, mainly due to how significant of a conceptual change that is.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Mastodon has a redirect. I believe that’s the only thing missing.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Thanks. I guess at the moment people manually redirect using pinned posts in communities and in their old profile bio.