It looks like posts from my old account didn't transfer over. If I have to switch servers again, is there any way to preserve the content?
@janusfox Oh -- you're on a new Mastodon instance! Unfortunately, there is no method for full data migration yet, and it won't be simple to implement. The maximal function we have available right now is to do a full archive download for your records, and to provide a structural redirect from the old profile on the old server to the new one. This issue is of great concern to me but I can't speak to its priority level in development at present.
@bobbyd0g Hopefully it can come in time. Hopefully server owners don't get sick of the burden and just burn it all down without giving us a chance to take over :)
@janusfox Not only for the technical improvement, but those threats will become obsolete as the network comes into its own socially, and people recognize it's up to us -- literally, US, not some amorphous concept of "society" (aka somebody else) -- to preserve our own history and communities and spaces. Many more of us must become admins to take closer responsibility for the communities around us, to whom we're accountable and in which we're personally invested.
@janusfox Part of why we need to diffuse the network as much as possible is to tamp down the corporate Internet's ability to police anything using legal threats. Anything they invest their effort into should affect only a tiny proportion of userbase and this would be quite deterrent. Right now, mastodon .social makes a very big target of itself. Any support you're willing to make of the big change is greatly appreciated!
@bobbyd0g I've done it before back in the days of forums. I think I swore it off forever back then after the last legal threat heh. But I will try to do what I can to support from the shadows! Being a dark fox and all >.>