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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><blockquote type="cite"><div>when I happen to look at the Federated Timeline I needed to cover my sensitive eyes!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://weirder.earth/@hollie/109366535377095578">https://weirder.earth/@hollie/109366535377095578</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(65, 45, 65);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(65, 45, 65);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Why?<span> </span><img rel="emoji" width="16" height="16" class="emojione custom-emoji" alt=":sealion:" title=":sealion:" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.weirder.earth/custom_emojis/images/000/050/291/static/c90575fd82f6445a.png" style="margin-top:-1px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;object-fit:contain;width:24px;height:24px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(65, 45, 65);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">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!<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(65, 45, 65);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">All of you who fled that one site<span> </span><img class="emojione" alt="🐤" title=":baby_chick:" src="https://weirder.earth/emoji/1f424.svg" style="margin-top:-1px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;object-fit:contain;width:24px;height:24px;"><span> </span>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.<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(65, 45, 65);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">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.<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:19px;line-height:inherit;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif, sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(65, 45, 65);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">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.<span> </span><img rel="emoji" width="16" height="16" class="emojione custom-emoji" alt=":blobcatrainbow:" title=":blobcatrainbow:" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.weirder.earth/custom_emojis/images/000/065/901/static/a8817509ccfa2f18.png" style="margin-top:-1px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;object-fit:contain;width:24px;height:24px;"><br></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>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!<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:10 PM John Steel via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="qt-msg-6737238100414929082"><div><u></u><br></div><div><div>The CSVs are for your followers / lists / who you've blocked but you can't export/import toots (posts). <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's my export page with CSV next to items that can be exported:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Posts 10<br></div><div>Follows 21 CSV<br></div><div>Lists 1 CSV<br></div><div>Followers 11 <br></div><div>You block 1 CSV<br></div><div>You mute 0 CSV<br></div><div>Domain blocks 0 CSV<br></div><div>Bookmarks 4 CSV<br></div><div><br></div><div>Followers cannot be exported to CSV but should be migrated when you configure your from_masto_instance to direct to your new_masto_instance. <br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, at 2:12 PM, Ronald Barnes wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-m_-6737238100414929082qt"><div>Doug Moen wrote on 2022-11-21 10:58:<br></div><div><br></div><div>> When you switch servers, your followers will come with you, but your old <br></div><div>> toots remain on the old server and aren't copied over.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Good point. I briefly scanned the document and didn't notice the "toots" <br></div><div>transfer missing from:<br></div><div><br></div><div>> After doing all these steps, your old account will redirect to the new<br></div><div>> one, and your followers, follows, bookmarks, mutes and blocks will<br></div><div>> transfer automatically.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Seems kind of important.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I expected steps 5 & 6 don't transfer toots?<br></div><div><br></div><div>> On your OLD account, go to Preferences > Import And Export > Data<br></div><div>> Export and download all the CSV files one file at a time<br></div><div><br></div><div>> On your NEW account, go to Preferences > Import And Export > Import<br></div><div>> and upload the CSV files one at a time<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is each CSV a toot? Batch of toots? No toots what-so-ever?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>rb<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>