[kwlug-disc] Riding the Mastodon?

[Doug Moen]

> when I happen to look at the Federated Timeline I needed to cover my sensitive eyes!

I don't know what you saw on Mastodon.social, but I read a claim that it is "poorly moderated" and that you might have a better experience on a different instance, at https://weirder.earth/@hollie/109366535377095578

> HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.
> 
> Why? :sealion:
> 
> Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!
> 
> All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.
> 
> But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.
> 
> If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. :blobcatrainbow:
> 


On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> One thing I have noticed..  my list of people that I follow are all decent enough people/sites with good content in their posts, but when I happen to look at the Federated Timeline I needed to cover my sensitive eyes!
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:10 PM John Steel via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>> __
>> The CSVs are for your followers / lists / who you've blocked but you can't export/import toots (posts). 
>> 
>> Here's my export page with CSV next to items that can be exported:
>> 
>> Posts 10
>> Follows 21 CSV
>> Lists 1 CSV
>> Followers 11 
>> You block 1 CSV
>> You mute 0 CSV
>> Domain blocks 0 CSV
>> Bookmarks 4 CSV
>> 
>> Followers cannot be exported to CSV but should be migrated when you configure your from_masto_instance to direct to your new_masto_instance. 
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, at 2:12 PM, Ronald Barnes wrote:
>>> Doug Moen wrote on 2022-11-21 10:58:
>>> 
>>> > When you switch servers, your followers will come with you, but your old 
>>> > toots remain on the old server and aren't copied over.
>>> 
>>> Good point. I briefly scanned the document and didn't notice the "toots" 
>>> transfer missing from:
>>> 
>>> > After doing all these steps, your old account will redirect to the new
>>> > one, and your followers, follows, bookmarks, mutes and blocks will
>>> > transfer automatically.
>>> 
>>> Seems kind of important.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I expected steps 5 & 6 don't transfer toots?
>>> 
>>> > On your OLD account, go to Preferences > Import And Export > Data
>>> > Export and download all the CSV files one file at a time
>>> 
>>> > On your NEW account, go to Preferences > Import And Export > Import
>>> > and upload the CSV files one at a time
>>> 
>>> Is each CSV a toot? Batch of toots? No toots what-so-ever?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> rb
>>> 
>>> 
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