30 replies

1. Zach Leatherman 2 min later

   I’m curious if this is a notification to folks to opt-in to a refollow? Did anyone receive something in Mastodon about this new account?

   1. Ben Myers 🦖 4 min later

      @zachleat I got a notification that you were following. me from this new account, but since I was already following this one, I didn't get any such invitations to follow.

   2. Coby 8 min later

      @zachleat no notification here. Is your new follower list the same?

   3. Will Martin 13 min later

      @zachleat Nothing yet, but I will reply back if/when I see something

      1. Will Martin 14 min later

         @zachleat oh actually, I wonder if I will see anything since I just manually followed you

   4. Ondřej Pokorný 19 min later

      @zachleat There's no notification about the move happening for your followers. They are just transparently moved from the old account to your new one. (If their software supports it.)

      1. Zach Leatherman 22 min later

         @ondra I like that although this reported differently https://aaronparecki.com/2022/11/05/28/

         1. Ondřej Pokorný 42 min later

            @zachleat Yep, people you were following will get notified of a new follower but people following you will simply follow the new account instead of the old one.

            1. Zach Leatherman 47 min later

               @ondra a ha! Thank you for the clarification!

               1. patak 54 min later

                  @zachleat @ondra for some reason, I got a following from your new account but I had to re-follow you manually (no notification appeared) and I manually unfollowed your old account at mastodon.social. Maybe it had to do with mas.to moving servers today, which was done at the same time.

                  1. patak 57 min later

                     @zachleat @ondra eager to see some data later about how a personal instance works for you. Cost, maintenance, DX when following, boosting others. I wonder if Mastodon works better if everyone ends up with a custom instance or what is the ideal state for the network... tons of 100-member instances? There must be some experiments already out there

                     1. Ondřej Pokorný 3 hr later

                        @patak Mastodon itself is definitely not optimized for single-user experience. (Local timeline are just your posts, you don't see most of the discussion under posts unless you follow the participants etc.)
                        Personally, I'm eyeing a solution integrating a personal website with ActivityPub similar to the link to @aaronpk's site above... @zachleat

   5. Chris Enns 39 min later

      @zachleat I got notification that you followed me from this account?

   6. Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) 55 min later

      @zachleat Hmm, it seems I have to manually follow you again here. OK of course! ☺️

   7. Peter Janes 1 hr later

      @zachleat I didn't receive a notification of the change, but I see I'm now following both of your accounts.

      1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

         @me well that’s good news, I think? the mastodon.social one should just be a redirect now

         1. Peter Janes 2 hr later

            @zachleat Yeah, it makes sense, although I might have expected the original to be unfollowed (a good web citizen wouldn't continue polling an obsolete resource). Probably a cleanup feature that could be implemented.

            1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

               @me I don’t think all of the steps have completed on this yet, unfortunately.

2. Aaron Parecki 3 min later

   @zachleat I got a follow request from your new site if that's what was supposed to happen! I have no idea how follower import is supposed to work on Mastodon
   1. Zach Leatherman 19 min later

      @aaronpk I mean, I don’t know 😅

3. Jason Lengstorf 4 min later

   @zachleat@zachleat.com @zachleat@mastodon.social where are you running your instance? I started looking and got a little overwhelmed

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @jlengstorf masto.host but they are locked to new signups today!

      (nothing but amazing service with them, highly recommended)

      1. Darrik 2 hr later

         @zachleat @jlengstorf Saw someone recommend SpaceBear as an alternative if you wanted to be able to host one of the forks with other/different features. https://toot.cat/@jdp23/109292557850939684

4. Chris Coleman 6 min later

   @zachleat@zachleat.com @zachleat I keep spotting people that I'm no longer following because a lot of people are hopping to other servers, and I can't help but wonder if I should re-follow first, or wait and see if it happens automatically.

5. Brian Rinaldi 3 hr later

   @zachleat I refollowed because it showed me not following any longer.

6. Zac Davis ⚡️ 5 hr later

   @zachleat the import worked fine for me on my way to #fosstodon

7. Cthos 1 day later

   @zachleat Seems to have worked from here. Are you planning on doing a write-up? How'd it go? Is it worth it? (I'm considering, but I wonder if I'd do better finding a good social community).

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

      @cthos I think it worked, yeah! The “following” import I attempted did not work though—I’m refollowing everyone manually (not ideal but fixable)

      1. Cthos 2 days later

         @zachleat how is the self hosting the instance thing going?

         1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

            @cthos great so far! No complaints!