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Matt Birchler

Yesterday I migrated to a new Mastodon server and recorded the whole process.

I hope this short tutorial can give other people the confidence that they can do it too if they ever feel inclined.

youtube.com/watch?v=XHK1iXdpvg
10 Feb 2023 at 13:36 | Open on isfeeling.social
16 comments
Matt Birchler

This was my favorite moment from the video.

TLDR moving accounts is slower than I expected, so this video took all day to make 😂

10 Feb 2023 at 13:47 | Open on isfeeling.social
Joseph Darnell

@matt just yesterday a friend explained to me reasons that I might want to someday. Thanks for sharing. 👍

10 Feb 2023 at 14:22 | Open on mstdn.plus
Petra van Cronenburg
Devon Dundee

@matt Great video, thank you! This helped dispel a lot of my hesitations with moving servers. It probably should have been obvious to me, but I didn’t realize that redirected accounts are excluded from search. That’s very smart.

10 Feb 2023 at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Richard Allum

@matt Hi Matt. I’m seeing a few people do this. What prompted you to move?

10 Feb 2023 at 16:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Matt Birchler

@richallum It was a bunch of little things, I think. Having my own domain has always been something I value (been blogging for 13 years 😳), and I just wanted to better-control the stability of my server. Whenever there's an influx of users, mastodon.social could get unreliable, and I shouldn't have that issue now since my server is just me 😁

10 Feb 2023 at 16:25 | Open on isfeeling.social
Richard Allum

@matt thanks. It’s a very good user name too 😜

10 Feb 2023 at 16:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Matt Birchler

@richallum Haha yeah, as soon as I got the domain I knew it was going to happen.

10 Feb 2023 at 16:42 | Open on isfeeling.social
Joe

@matt I feel like Mastodon is a niche still and it scares people. I’d love to see videos on getting started with Mastodon our advanced stuff like creating bots. That is my next project

11 Feb 2023 at 21:16 | Open on mastodon.social
Matt Birchler

@smokinjoe2122 Yeah, I hear you. I made this video back in November and it's actually doing a bit better than average. Would love to see more resources out there that make Mastodon feel a little less scary to people 😀

youtube.com/watch?v=-SBDtzECC-

11 Feb 2023 at 22:56 | Open on isfeeling.social
Tim Stringer

@matt I’m toying with the idea of creating a Mastodon server for my company and watching this video demystified the process. Thanks, Matt!

12 Feb 2023 at 5:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Curtis Bathurst

@matt Well that's useful! I don't wanna migrate but I do think about: what if I have to, one day? Thank you. Very nice of you to do such a cleanly shot and produced guide.

19 Feb 2023 at 19:40 | Open on tech.lgbt
dav1d ☑️

@matt thanks for the video, but how did you manage to move your old posts? or is it done automatically?

19 Feb 2023 at 23:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Matt Birchler

@dav1d Thanks! Old posts don’t move, they stick around on the old server, but you can’t bring them with you.

20 Feb 2023 at 0:38 | Open on isfeeling.social
Incorrigible Maker

@matt
Maybe I just lucked out and picked the right server to join when I left the bird site. I don't really understand the need to move. My feed is full of users from other servers.

20 Feb 2023 at 1:43 | Open on mstdn.party
Matt Birchler

@OlDude82 So is mine 😁

You certainly don’t have to, and I think I said in the video that most people should probably just use a big one, but I liked the idea of owning my own domain.

20 Feb 2023 at 1:55 | Open on isfeeling.social
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