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People say Mastodon migration is better than Lemmy's, but their documentation says "Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations", am I missing something? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export

Seems pretty similar to the way we manage it with Lemmy at the moment (settings menu, export JSON, import JSON), am I missing something?

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 18 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

On Mastodon it's all about who you're following and who you're being followed by, so being able to move somewhere else and take your followers with you is a big deal.

On the Threadiverse we don't really follow users so much, so the whole concept of account migration becomes very different. Migration of communities rather than of users would probably be the best parallel - it would be great if subscribers could automatically follow a migrating community without having to manually resubscribe.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I see. On the other hand, I've done it a few times (you announce it beforehand, create the new community, lock the old community with a pinned post) and it's usually okay. Not ideal of course, but still not a breaking point.

The argument I've seen a few times is that "communities should be able to move all of their posts and comments elsewhere, on Mastodon it's possible", but it doesn't seem to be the case from the OP.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 6 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Ah yeah, it's not possible on Mastodon either. Your content stays where it is.

I think it's even less of a problem on the Threadiverse than it is on Mastodon though. Most people are interested in new content here, we rarely go digging too much through the archives. Though it would of course be neat.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

we rarely go digging too much through the archives

Not for day to day use, but the main value reddit had was because of good information posted there. I hope Lemmy could replace reddit on that matter too. So when you need to search for something online you could use the fediverse as a good source instead of proprietary sites.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

It seems to be a different question than migrating the content.

We moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee, but the content of the old community is still accessible for everyone.

This has more to do with the instance hosting the former community still being available than migration of the content itself

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