If you're currently on a massive server like mastodon.social, you might want to consider moving your account to a smaller server.
You can keep your followers when you change servers, here's how to do it: mstdn.social/@feditips/1079394…
You can find reliable servers at joinmastodon.org/communities (all the servers listed there agree to the covenant at joinmastodon.org/covenant). Try to pick one with fewer people.
There are lots of good things about smaller servers:
-Better moderation, because there are more staff per member.
-Smaller servers tend to have more personality, with a village feel.
-The local timeline on smaller servers is much more readable.
-Smaller servers protect the Fediverse as a whole from being taken over, because lots of smaller servers are harder to buy than a few big servers.
-It's easier to make a difference on smaller servers. It's easier to discuss things with the admin and other members.
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If you want, you can move your Mastodon account from one instance (server) to another. Moving lets you take your followers, follows and some settings with you. 1.Mastodon 🐘
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Paweł Świątkowski
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in reply to Paweł Świątkowski • • •At the moment it's only Mastodon -> Mastodon, as far as I know.
But Mastodon is an open platform, so I guess in theory other Fedi platform developers could add support? It may be more complicated to do that though (I am not a developer! 😁 ).
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Unknown parent • • •Charline
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Unknown parent • • •Oh no :(
I think it can take some time for some followers to automatically change over, so maybe they're not all lost?
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Unknown parent • • •Did you do every step by the way?
There are two separate things you have to do to get followers and follows, some people only do one or the other.
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Unknown parent • • •There are two separate guidelines/processes, one transfers people you follow, and the other transfers people who follow you.
If someone only does one process, the account will only move partially.
That's why there are so many steps in my guide (mstdn.social/@feditips/1079394…) because it covers both processes.
Maybe there's still a step you can do? :/
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •Eric the Cerise
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •At the other end of the spectrum, however, be careful about joining very small instances (< a few 100 members), because you risk ending up on a hobby server, possibly poorly managed or one day shut down w/o warning.
You do not need to "avoid them at all costs", many/most are still good ... there's just a higher risk there.
ETA: From personal experience...
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in reply to Eric the Cerise • • •There is always that risk, yes.
However, it's reasonable to go on a very small server if it has been around for a long time. For example laserdisc.party has been around for years and it only has 80 users.
You can check the age of a server by clicking on the admin's profile, it will tell you when they signed up.
Another way to mitigate risk is to use joinmastodon.org/communities as they have all publicly committed to reliability (joinmastodon.org/covenant).
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Unknown parent • • •Good point, I am guessing this is an oversight rather than a deliberate omission?
If you email hello@joinmastodon.org they might be able to give more info on the requirements? Perhaps they should specifically name more forms of discrimination.
The servers all have their own rules so some of them will be much more specific about what is allowed.
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Unknown parent • • •The easiest way to set up your own Mastodon server is to use a managed hosting service like masto.host or federation.spacebear.ee
Managed hosting means they do all the technical things like installation and updates. You don't need technical knowledge for managed hosting.
If you do have technical knowledge about servers, you can install it yourself using the guide at docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run… (and there are also tools like @yunohost to make this easier).
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •Support Post Migration · Issue #12423 · mastodon/mastodon
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Unknown parent • • •OnTheFenceDev
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in reply to OnTheFenceDev • • •As long as you don't delete your old account, the toots will remain where they are.
Clicking on those toots' old profile link will redirect people to your new account.
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Jarred
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •Thanks @feditips, your quick guide helped me migrate to a smaller and more local instance!
The only issue was I was only able to migrate my follower/following lists, and my bookmarks. My posts and settings weren't able to be transferred.
Aside from the individual csv lists, I exported my whole account (in tar.gz format), but there doesn't appear to be any way to import it into the new instance.