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   Jonathan Rollans (jrollans@jrollans.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 08:20:00 JST Jonathan Rollans
   Hey, #ActivityPub folks that know more than me about the protocol, I have a question:
   
   What kind of issues or concerns might I have if I shut down one kind of AP server software and then set up a different AP server on the domain previously occupied by the now decommissioned first AP server?
   
   (I don’t think the soon-to-be-shutdown server has a self-destruct.)
   
   #MastoAdmin #Fediverse #Admin #SelfHosting
   
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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 08:22:35 JST BeAware

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     @jrollans from what I understand, you will more than likely run into federation issues.😬

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 08:50:13 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     @BeAware I was told that could be mitigated if you delete your accounts on your old instance first and give time for that to cycle around. And if you plan on reusing your main account, to be sure to set up a dummy account to make as your admin then delete the real account, If your software will send out account deletions. Take this with a grain of salt though. @jrollans

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     Jonathan Rollans (jrollans@jrollans.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 18:16:07 JST Jonathan Rollans

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     @paul@oldfriends.live @BeAware@social.beaware.live @BeAware Yeah, that makes sense to me I think. I don’t think the instance I’m looking at taking down to swap out for something else has federated with a ton of other instances, so hopefully it wouldn’t take much time at all.
     
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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 18:16:07 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     @jrollans With all the hype about WordPress federation, WordPress hasn't put in any defederation, self-destruct, mechanism in their plugin and doesn't seem too keen to do it, after more than a year of me going back and forth with the devs on Mastodon and GitHub. I believe this is true for even deleting accounts in WordPress that have federation mode attached. This is true as of the last time I checked.

     Essentially, I get "It's hard" and "We're working on it." Fine, at least put up some kind of independent script, guidance or something so we can deactivate and send the signal out to the Fediverse that it's done federating.

     It's really malpractice to the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub

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     Jonathan Rollans (jrollans@jrollans.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 18:23:20 JST Jonathan Rollans

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     • Paul Chambers🚧
     @paul@oldfriends.live @jrollans Wow, yeah, I had no idea! It seems like a pretty obvious necessity to have a way to stop federation and send out the message that the account is no longer active or an AP entity. Honestly to me it feels just as important as having a way to start federating in the first place.