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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 17:25:24 JST FediTips has moved!

   ⚠️ Warning to anyone on the mstdn.party or mstdn.plus servers, recommend you move to another server ASAP.

   Their only admin is apparently unreachable, and his accounts haven't posted anything since Dec 2022.

   You can find a new server at https://joinmastodon.org/servers or https://fedi.garden (the servers listed there have at least two admins and promise to give 3 months warning of any shutdown).

   There's a step-by-step guide to moving your account at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#TransferringYourMastodonAccountToAnotherServer

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 19:10:21 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Frank Verhoeven

     @Flies4no1

     That's exactly what the Mastodon Covenant does:

     https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

     All the servers listed on the JoinMastodon site (and also on my fedi.garden site) have to promise that there is more than one person with admin access.

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     Frank Verhoeven (flies4no1@mastodon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 19:10:22 JST Frank Verhoeven

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     @feditips Crazy idea: make co-administrator mandatory; failing that, make arrangements for a fallback instance mandatory.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 20:53:52 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Ｄｏｎｙｅｌｌｅ

     @GamerGrl90

     Yes, you can.

     You may have to wait a while during a "cooldown" period of 30 days before doing another account transfer though.

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     Ｄｏｎｙｅｌｌｅ (gamergrl90@cr8r.gg)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 20:53:53 JST Ｄｏｎｙｅｌｌｅ

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     @feditips if they do come back, can we reverse the move?

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 21:56:11 JST Urban Hermit

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     @feditips you have a very nice guide here for changing instances. Unfortunately I got halfway though it and forgot to finish reading, but I eventually read about importing .CSV files and got the people I follow back. Half the confusion was caused by the fact that I have never used Mastodon through my browser before and this couldn't be done through my app. Here's hoping he is alright, and that somebody has an emergency contact number and can get more definitive information.

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     Walter Dunham Ll.B. (walterdunham@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 23:58:21 JST Walter Dunham Ll.B.

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     @feditips
     I knew there was a problem when my timeline was not updating. I even tried posting and while I can see the toot on my profile it's nowhere to be found in my timeline. That's why I moved to mstdn.social last Monday but I'm not able to move my followers. It was a painstaking process as I had to notify them in 7 batches about my migration.

     #MastodonMigration
     #FollowMeFollowYou

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     stux⚡ (stux@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:06:13 JST stux⚡

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     @feditips I was hoping this would turn but to be sure I've boosted it! :boost_ok:

     I rather spread the word with the hopes things turn around but if they don't.. People can't lose their instance overnight :blobcatscared:

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:10:17 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • stux⚡
     • Erik Uden :verified:
     Why are you guys so desperate for someone to janny you?
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     Erik Uden :verified: (erik@social.uden.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:10:18 JST Erik Uden :verified:

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     • stux⚡

     I know instances that have been running despite the admins having been dead for over a year. Scary times, people.

     If I ever stop posting on the Fedi, assume I’m 6 feet - or more - under.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:13:54 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • stux⚡
     • Erik Uden :verified:
     What risk? Just make a new account lol.
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     Erik Uden :verified: (erik@social.uden.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:13:55 JST Erik Uden :verified:

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     • stux⚡
     • Fediverse Contractor

     Not at all, you just seriously never know what’s gonna happen. I don’t think I’m gonna die, but seriously, my instance entirely depends on my electricity bill, if I’m dead there’ll be no one doing this.

     I just want people to know the risk of joining a single-admin instance.

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     Kieron (kleron@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:17:23 JST Kieron

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     @feditips this is my main concern with making the switch to mastodon. Are any instances 100% guaranteed to last?

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:21:01 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • stux⚡
     • Erik Uden :verified:
     There are instances that archive everything, even things you delete.
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     Erik Uden :verified: (erik@social.uden.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:21:02 JST Erik Uden :verified:

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     • stux⚡
     • Fediverse Contractor
     • litadieuze

     I can’t predict what people use my instance for. I used to have someone from France on here who’d publish self written poems daily @litadieuze, I think was it. My Fediverse instance went down during the holidays because I was unavailable and it was overused for the Pi-Cluster it used to run on, so then it went offline for over a month.

     That person hasn’t posted since, I think after my instance went offline they just assumed all their content would be lost.

     I don’t want for people to have to backup all their content by themselves, I want them to be able to trust me and the Fediverse (through backups as well as downtime being kept to a minimum).

     Just making a new account to some might mean losing a lot of important thoughts and memories. You may not like it, but this is how normies use social media platforms.

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     Kenneth S. Cremeans (kcSeb) (kcseb@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 00:33:26 JST Kenneth S. Cremeans (kcSeb)

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     @feditips Boosted for visibility!

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     DRSpalding (drspalding@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 02:27:46 JST DRSpalding

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     • Jon Cooper
     • David Waldman
     • Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom

     @feditips
     @JonCooper
     @KagroX
     @nunesalt

     Take note that mstdn.party is suspect now for maintenance/support reasons.

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     Katma (katma@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 21:20:25 JST Katma

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     • Blank :verified:

     @feditips @Blank
     Hi Blank. Here’s one relevant post about the server. I’m running around this morning but I’ll try to find the one I originally saw later. Hope your day is good!