I saw this article on “hacker”news. For sure there are legitimate concerns about the Fediverse to be made. Maybe point 1 is one them - not being able to migrate data. But they don’t expand or make proposals on this, and instead go off on a tangent complaining about general online discourse and Twitter style microblogging in particular.
Yeah, most of the arguments they raised fully applied to Twitter also, and some where factually incorrect. You can raise the maximum length of the posts if you self host, or chose to use something different from Mastodon altogether.
Look like it won’t migrate the data, here’s what it says when I got to the option on my account:
This action will moveall followers from the current account to the new account
Your current account's profile will be updated with a redirect notice and be excluded from searches
No other data will be moved automatically
However, you can do a data export and use the API to reload the data on the new account that way.
I saw this article on “hacker”news. For sure there are legitimate concerns about the Fediverse to be made. Maybe point 1 is one them - not being able to migrate data. But they don’t expand or make proposals on this, and instead go off on a tangent complaining about general online discourse and Twitter style microblogging in particular.
Yeah, most of the arguments they raised fully applied to Twitter also, and some where factually incorrect. You can raise the maximum length of the posts if you self host, or chose to use something different from Mastodon altogether.
I think saying that they can self host isn’t a viable in this instance, maybe they don’t wanna
Worth noting that it’s perfectly possible to migrate data between instances.
yeah but it doesn’t migrate toots, right? It does migrate everything else though
Look like it won’t migrate the data, here’s what it says when I got to the option on my account:
This action will move all followers from the current account to the new account Your current account's profile will be updated with a redirect notice and be excluded from searches No other data will be moved automaticallyHowever, you can do a data export and use the API to reload the data on the new account that way.
but still you can’t import toots, right?
Why would you want to? Honestly asking. Toots are meant to be more in the moment.
I don’t care, I think it is fine the way it is. But the first point of the article is
so that’s literally why I was clarifying that in the answer
doesn’t really help here, because it is just partly true.
So this is a fair point, if they really want this it’s a reason to leave. A dumb one at that imo but I am being downvoted here for just stating facts.
Ok fair enough. I didn’t downvote you myself honestly you are saying anything that makes it reasonable to downvote imho.