I’m curious as to you guys opinions. It could be Mastodon itself or a Mastodon client. What features would you like to see that are not currently available?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% better migration options. I want to take my posts with me, I want people going to my old profile to redirect to my new profile. I feel like I've been stuck on my Mastodon instance, which is very small and is not tended to by the admins a lot, because of the lacking migration functionality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Mastodon already has that. You can export and import ~~posts~~^[@[email protected] clarified below that you can only import lists, bookmarks, blocks, and mutes. Not posts.] in the settings, and under Account Settings, you can move to a different account so people are redirected to your new profile.

My screenshot doesn't show import as an option because I migrated away from this Mastodon account to Firefish.

[–] vidarh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, while you can export everything, you can't import posts in Mastodon without having direct access to the database and poking about.

You can import following lists, bookmarks, blocks and mutes, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah is that so? My mistake then.

[–] vidarh 3 points 1 year ago

It's stupid that it's not there, though, and I suspect it will get fixed at some point. Basically, some concerns were raised about people using it to doctor timelines (but they can already do that by setting up a single-person instance and messing with the database), and the new instance can validate the signatures of the posts anyway, so they're no less secure than posts from other accounts received via federation. If anyone is really concerned they could slap an "imported from ..." banner on old/migrated posts so people are aware they were not originally posted there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Um omg this is amazing news haha! I should have followed the mastodon updates more closely it seems, I had no idea we could do this now. Thanks so much for bringing that to my attention 😀