Notices by zvavybir :palestina:🍉 :FediPact: :Green: :masked: (zvavybir@social.zvavybir.eu)

@jessew That is surprisingly good actually‽

@nyx Do you have to use "retard"? It generally is considered to be not such a great word (and it also implies that racism is a mental illness which is generally considered to be wrong and/or unhelpful to point out).

(Also, if you can't write an alt text, please use the AltText4Me hash tag.)

@madeindex I don't understand who you would loose? This is the point of the federated nature of the Fediverse – that you can change your server and still connect with everyone.

@madeindex But even without such direct abuses it is bad. For example I tried to block mastodon.social after they started their partnership with Facebook's Threads, but couldn't due to whom I would loose. So there is already a problem.

About your concerns: Contacts and followers will be automigrated (I did it already twice without problems) and you can first check what character and poll limit an instance has (although afaik mastodon.social is *very* unusually low, so this is not really something to worry about, even if you couldn't check it first). And about SEO: At least on DuckDuckGo your website is above your mastodon account, and even if someone where to stumble on your mastodon.social account after migration, they would see where you are now (for example my old account is under https://mastodon.social/@zvavybir and this immediately tells you where I am now).

And yes, Misskey is better…

@madeindex The user and server drop is pretty much independent of this issue and needs to be addressed separately. (also I'm not completely convinced it's true give the data on the website, it seems pretty steady.)

@madeindex This problem is well-known and raised often, but sadly no action by Eugen/the Mastodon gGmbH has been taken so far. While you are of course correct that being the official maintainers of a major software and the owners of the primary sign-up site is a lot of power, there is also a lot of power being an admin of a big instance, independent from the other things. The most pressing concern to me is that the large size means that I can't really defederate mastodon.social (I now have decided to do it anyway as the pains have become too high and I remembered ways to circumvent the worst of it (I can still subscribe to the RSS feed of the accounts I want to follow in my RSS reader and I have an old account that I can use to write to mastodon.social users if I need to)) without loosing a lot of people I care about (and losing people who want to hear from me – the list of accounts in the first post are all following me from mastodon.social), so one of the most important and potent moderation tools is effectively toothless for this one instance.

@madeindex Many people (including me) on the fediverse keep complaining that mastodon.social has too many users (> 200000), which contradicts the defederated nature of the fediverse (some of the problems of that is that it hinders in moderation and that the admins of mastodon.social have a lot of power given their position of the admin of 200000 people).

Due to it's famously too large size, this server will defederate mastodon.social tomorrow.

I want to encourage everyone to leave mastodon.social (if you might need/want/could use help, see https://social.zvavybir.eu/@zvavybir/112538214136989581 ), especially those who follow me (If you only manage to migrate after I already defederated mastodon.social, the auto follower/followee migration will not take me with you, so then please feel free to dm me so that I remember to follow you again).

#mastodonSocial

@Thomas_LB
@PeteTucker
@Dreamie
@gobberies
@parsaaz
@ChronicIllnessHumor
@hhardy01
@newstephie
@cemedia
@persagen
@fransoazo
@COVID19_DISEASE
@UKnoGum
@madeindex
@Benaresh
@wellingtonrock
@RealJournalism
@DrALJONES
@GenetikcinizPro
@openscience
@piraten_saarland
@european_alternatives
@NGIAssure

@BeAware @michael That sounds exactly like the thing I need. Thanks a lot!!

@BeAware That not what I meant, sorry for writing it quite weirdly. What I mean is, is there a way for my server to fetch from the original server all posts that that other server knows of and then show them (and then of course blocklists are automatically used)?

Is there a way to "Open original page" or similar that takes my blocklists into account? (I usually have to open the original page because not all replies federate to my instance.)

#mastodon

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸

I haven't really put this anywhere easily accessible so far, so now here: If you need, could use or just simply want help in joining the Fediverse/Mastodon or in switching instances, don't hesitate to reach out, I will help gladly. You can reach out by fedi-DM (in case you're already here), by e-mail (helpforjoin@zvavybir.eu) or my website's contact page: https://zvavybir.eu/contact

@BeAware But doesn't this just mean that you can look at them in separate? It still takes the same time to read all?

#fedi question: How do people follow thousands of people? I follow two hundred and already have serious trouble keeping up.

#fediverse

Is there a way to follow all accounts on a Mobilizon instance?

#mobilizon #mastodon #fediverse

I'm currently trying (again) to migrate my mastodon server to self-hosted (from masto.host), but having problems. The data in the masto.host backup seems not complete (redis and .env.production seems to be missing) and last time I tried this I was to stupid to restore the postresql database. Could someone help?

#mastodon #mastoHost #selfHosting

#fediverse question: What is the license for posts on here?

@desikn @aral So you're telling me I just have to make two empty files to lock out apple users from my projects? 😍

@jacklaridian @aral Didn't knew that. Thanks for telling me!