@marcusxms @calaad
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That might or might not work depending on whether the server shutting down sends out a deletion command. Many of them do this to tidy away posts from accounts that no longer exist.
You can download a personal archive of your posts but there's currently no way to upload this onto Mastodon:
️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-download-your-mastodon-post-archiveThere may be other Fediverse platforms that allow Mastodon archive uploads in the future, Firefish experimented with this at one point.
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That might or might not work depending on whether the server shutting down sends out a deletion command. Many of them do this to tidy away posts from accounts that no longer exist.
You can download a personal archive of your posts but there's currently no way to upload this onto Mastodon:
️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-download-your-mastodon-post-archiveThere may be other Fediverse platforms that allow Mastodon archive uploads in the future, Firefish experimented with this at one point.
@FediTips @calaad Alright, maybe instead one could quote share the posts on Friendica and then refer to that account on Mastodon, or possibly boost those quote shared posts. That is until Mastodon itself gains the quote share functionality. I would assume those would not be deleted by that operation?
Or perhaps in that case one may as well script reposting them all, losing the original timestamps but retaining the content, or reposting them inside a quote with a printed timestamp of the original post.
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@FediTips @calaad Alright, maybe instead one could quote share the posts on Friendica and then refer to that account on Mastodon, or possibly boost those quote shared posts. That is until Mastodon itself gains the quote share functionality. I would assume those would not be deleted by that operation?
Or perhaps in that case one may as well script reposting them all, losing the original timestamps but retaining the content, or reposting them inside a quote with a printed timestamp of the original post.
There are sites that let you display your Masto archive online as a website, you could refer to these on your new account?
Alternatively, a script could possibly repost the archive to your new account? But it would probably be rate-limited by the new server as someone posting potentially thousands of posts might overwhelm the server's resources.
(This was one of the problems on Firefish's experiment, it overwhelmed the server when the archive being uploaded was large.)
