Mastodon - Support Post Migration

dachary · May 28, 2023, 6:05am

Support Post Migration

opened 06:42PM - 18 Nov 19 UTC

#177 – Support Account Migration – was closed after implementing follower migrat…ion, but this is only one small part of a true migration. To really be able to change instances, you need to be able to take your posts with you. There was some good discussion on this over there; I'm opening a new issue to make it clear that this is a separate concern from that issue, which seemed to evolve into only being about followers. Personally, I couldn't care less about migrating my followers/following list. I can refollow people and have them refollow me. It'll all work out. My posts, however, are currently _impossible_ to restore.

A thread started years ago regarding the migration of data between mastodon instances. It is not directly related to F3 but speaks to the issues of data migration in a federated ecosystem.