[kwlug-disc] Riding the Mastodon?

[CrankyOldBugger]

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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