📣 Are you on the server toot.community?
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Are you on the server toot.community?You need to transfer your account to a different server, as it is closing down on 28th October 2026. (They gave three months warning in July.)
The transfer process lets you keep your follows, followers and other stuff but you have to do the transfer *before* toot.community shuts down.
Here's a transfer guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server...and here's an easy-to-use way to find good reliable servers to move to:
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Are you on the server toot.community?
You need to transfer your account to a different server, as it is closing down on 28th October 2026. (They gave three months warning in July.)
The transfer process lets you keep your follows, followers and other stuff but you have to do the transfer *before* toot.community shuts down.
Here's a transfer guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server...and here's an easy-to-use way to find good reliable servers to move to:
@FediTips 🥲 miss it already
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Are you on the server toot.community?
You need to transfer your account to a different server, as it is closing down on 28th October 2026. (They gave three months warning in July.)
The transfer process lets you keep your follows, followers and other stuff but you have to do the transfer *before* toot.community shuts down.
Here's a transfer guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server...and here's an easy-to-use way to find good reliable servers to move to:
I moved an account tonight to a home instance I set up yesterday. It's already federating nicely.
If you are a bit techie its not difficult to set up your own instance at home for free. If you are lacking a spare static IPv4 you could use IPv6 and proxy it through Cloudflare free to serve to IPv4 only users.
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Are you on the server toot.community?
You need to transfer your account to a different server, as it is closing down on 28th October 2026. (They gave three months warning in July.)
The transfer process lets you keep your follows, followers and other stuff but you have to do the transfer *before* toot.community shuts down.
Here's a transfer guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server...and here's an easy-to-use way to find good reliable servers to move to:
@FediTips is it common for servers to shutdown?
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Are you on the server toot.community?
You need to transfer your account to a different server, as it is closing down on 28th October 2026. (They gave three months warning in July.)
The transfer process lets you keep your follows, followers and other stuff but you have to do the transfer *before* toot.community shuts down.
Here's a transfer guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server...and here's an easy-to-use way to find good reliable servers to move to:
I've used @Ruth_Mottram @social.growyourown.services transfer guide; its easy to understand, and easy to follow... and doesn't take long - highly recommended
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@FediTips is it common for servers to shutdown?
It's difficult to give an answer as it can vary so much, some servers have been around for almost 10 years. I have a list of good servers sorted by age at https://fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-founding-year
Any site or service on the internet will shut down at some point. The only way to get around this is to be able to move your account elsewhere, or to create your own services.
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I moved an account tonight to a home instance I set up yesterday. It's already federating nicely.
If you are a bit techie its not difficult to set up your own instance at home for free. If you are lacking a spare static IPv4 you could use IPv6 and proxy it through Cloudflare free to serve to IPv4 only users.
Even if you're not techie at all, you can create a server through managed hosting very easily, as they do all the technical stuff for you.
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Even if you're not techie at all, you can create a server through managed hosting very easily, as they do all the technical stuff for you.
Except that costs money. And while VMs come cheap Mastodon is storage heavy. That costs a lot remotely while a 240GB SSD is probably in the drawer or not a lot at even retail prices today.
If you have set up your own RaspberryPis then its the logical next step. Otherwise I'd still go with mastodon.* or other public service. You don't have to think and especially be spared the regular update cycle.
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Except that costs money. And while VMs come cheap Mastodon is storage heavy. That costs a lot remotely while a 240GB SSD is probably in the drawer or not a lot at even retail prices today.
If you have set up your own RaspberryPis then its the logical next step. Otherwise I'd still go with mastodon.* or other public service. You don't have to think and especially be spared the regular update cycle.
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Except that costs money. And while VMs come cheap Mastodon is storage heavy. That costs a lot remotely while a 240GB SSD is probably in the drawer or not a lot at even retail prices today.
If you have set up your own RaspberryPis then its the logical next step. Otherwise I'd still go with mastodon.* or other public service. You don't have to think and especially be spared the regular update cycle.
It's not that expensive
(Prices at https://masto.host/pricing or https://fedihost.co/pricing and many others)
