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My new social home is almost ready at @fabio. All of my followers can start following me there, if they want to.

Checklist:

✔️ Configure DNS + nginx + SSL boilerplate
✔️ Install Akkoma
✔️ Clone profile + settings
✔️ Import list of followed accounts
✔️ Import list of blocked/muted accounts
✔️ Clone list of blocked instances
⌛ Clone posts (if someone has a quick way to migrate posts from Mastodon to Pleroma/Akkoma, please let me know, before I dive down the rabbit hole of either SQL or API scripting)
⌛ Replace all references of `rel="me"` and my PGP keys to point to the new profile
⌛ Formalize the transfer and move all the followers along
⌛ Help/wait for the few users on this instance to export their data before shutting down social.platypush.tech

I may speed up things a bit more because Redis on my instance is dying with out-of-memory every couple of hours now. And I'm running a dedicated Linode box with 8GB of RAM, not an early Raspberry Pi.

Not only Mastodon isn't meant to scale, but it fails miserably even at managing things at a micro scale.

You can't tell people "we're democratizing things, everybody can run their own instance", if running even a personal instance with a decent amount of connections to the rest of the Fediverse involves spinning up a machine with 8GB of RAM, either 100GB of storage or a decent S3 bucket, and forget running this stuff in your home network if you're planning to plug it to a relay.

Its bad design decisions turned it into the Bitcoin of social platforms, and it has become a liability for the Fediverse more than an asset. I'd have saved quite a lot of money had I decided to switch to Akkoma earlier.