@FediTips@social.growyourown.services is it possible to migrate my account and keep my followers now that I'm starting to figure out how this app works?
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social
Yes, it is! I was just about to post a follow-on to the post telling people how to move an account while keeping their followers π
There's a non-technical step-by-step guide to transferring your account at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
I know it seems scarily long but each step is very simple. I've written it that long to make each step as easy as possible. Also following this guide moves lots of other stuff too including bookmarks, account blocks etc.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @wintervoid01@mastodon.social
"you donβt care about transferring anything else, you can skip steps 5 and 6"β¦ the people you follow are in a csv fileβ¦ when I transferred from .cloud to .social my followers came over but I skipped steps 5 and 6 so I had to follow my followers manually and then pick up other follows gradually as I remembered themβ¦
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services the only reason use the official instance is because I didn't understand how the platform worked and I was worried that it wouldn't be active on other instances but now seeing how many other instances and even personal instances show up on my feed i might do that I just don't feel like dealing with moderating myself is there a easy way to defederate with the not good instances automatically
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social
Totally get that, and the official Mastodon app implies this by pushing mastodon.social on its front page too (which they shouldn't do).
You don't need to moderate if you're on another server. Other servers work exactly like mastodon.social, they have their own moderators. There's nothing special about mastodon.social except that it's way too overcrowded.
Admins on servers can easily defederate bad instances by using ready-made blocklists: https://fedi.tips/importing-ready-made-server-blocklists-on-mastodon/
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services if you migrate to a good instance they should already have defederated all of the bad instances, so you don't need to worry
@tauon@possum.city @FediTips@social.growyourown.services which one would you recommend? also I'm considering self hosting my own instance because I've been going through a homelabbing phase and jellyfin and next cloud aren't enough but it also seems like too much effort to moderate
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services also any tips on making your website more user friendly? When I was switching to fedi stuff I used it but it's kind of hard to navigate
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social @tauon@possum.city
If you're running a personal server and you keep sign-ups closed, then there wouldn't be much moderation as you would be the only person on the server.
The only stuff you would see showing up on your server is whatever you choose to follow, plus whatever they share (and also whatever relays you connect to if you want to, but relays are optional).
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @tauon@possum.city what instances would you recommend for to check out to migrate to maybe
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social
There are alternative web front ends people can use such as https://phanpy.social and https://elk.zone
These work with any server that runs on Mastodon or supports the Mastodon API.
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social @tauon@possum.city
I run a website at https://fedi.garden that recommends instances, and the official Mastodon list is at https://joinmastodon.org/servers
These two sites are good because they have certain requirements for being listed (https://fedi.garden/about-this-site and https://joinmastodon.org/covenant).
There are also other sites with much bigger selections of servers, but they usually don't have requirements so they're more dangerous to rely on.
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