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Pixelfed Account Migration will transfer your followers to another Pixelfed or Mastodon account!

We could limit this to only other Pixelfed servers, but why?

The ability to easily migrate your followers between platforms and servers is what makes the #fediverse special ❀️

Pixelfed Account Migration
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Fedo ΒΆ

@dansup@mastodon.social I get that direct migration to others Fediverse softwares is still not possible, but I guess at least Mastodon can be used as a bridge, so one could move followers from Pixelfed to, say, Misskey in two moves.
Is it right?

Mamus

@dansup can this be abused?

e.g. by taking 100 accounts and pushing all followers to a single one?

Johnny

@mamus @dansup You don't need to go to those lengths to "abuse" follower counts on fedi. You can manipulate your own server to display whatever number of followers you want. Similarly, you could create many accounts on your own server to follow yourself somewhere else. That's just plain old spam.

Mamus

@johnny @dansup what about following someone who posts cute puppies and one day you're following ads?

There's still room for abuse. I'm not saying it's bad. I like being able to transfer accounts. Just brainstorming 😊

Johnny

@mamus I mean, I could post cute puppies today and start posting ads tomorrow. No account switching necessary. What's the point?

Holm / The tooth

@dansup the migration/import from Instagram is also very important, to get the people to easily decide to leave Instagram... But to be honest, I and many other users are having difficulties getting all the information over to pixelfed. It only works for some posts and many are being ignored by the import program 😒. I'm trying since 2 weeks with different attempts and filesizes, etc... I'm missing my most recent 100 posts (so the most important ones). For the older ones, it worked well. Thank you

dansup

@holmthetooth We are working on a few Import from IG bug fixes!

Holm / The tooth

@dansup that is wonderful news πŸ™πŸ˜Š... Thank you for all your work!

Andreas Gohr

@dansup this is cool, but of course a without being able to transfer the contents as well this is not really a migration.
It's bad that this doesn't work for mastodon, but I think it's doubly bad for pixelfed. When one instance is shutting down one is loosing all those wonderful pictures even though it should be easy to migrate to another instance.

MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$
@dansup any chance to fix import from instagram ( github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i… ) ? I have some people ready to move but only on the condition that they can do it together with the data.
Braw β˜•πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@dansup can't help but notice how bad the experience of migrating on fediverse is, with these red walls of text and back-linking...

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