Gregory's ServerA little-known fact about Mastodon is that when you move your account, it gets put on a truck and then shipped to the new server. Here, for instance, are users employing I-195 to move between servers.
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@shriramk@mastodon.social it's not just Mastodon. Pleroma, Akkoma, Calckey and now Misskey have migration feature too!  @misc @mastodonmoving This is amazing. I was so sure they wouldn't be that I didn't even check. Keep on movin', Mastodon!  If this company ever gets a Mastodon account, it will create the most beautiful worlds-collision confusion ever. @shriramk @mastodonmoving Happy you're here Mastodon Moving even if I don't know you at all! You might want to prep a template to reply to people that you are moving actual boxes and not Mastodon accounts ;) Anyhow, warmest welcome! :mastodon:โ :meowBox:โโจ   But what about accounts that are too big to fit in the truck? Do they get disassembled and reassembled for free?   @shriramk But wait I thought the Internet was a series of tubes?? A lot has changed since the 2000s. @shriramk Depending on the account, that's either a very fast or very slow data speed.   @shriramk ah this is this new container technology for data. Cool. We should call it Mastocker or Docktodon or not ask a CS guy to come up with a fitting name for tech. Anyway, great to see that it works.  @shriramk @roipoussiere A modification of RFC 1149 to generalize it into IP over physical media utilizing an infinitely-variable packet size. The request is usually transmitted across more common routes. While this method of information transfer is uneconomical for all but the most enormous amounts of data, it has the benefit of being able to transfer actual, physical objects, a feat no other form of Internet traffic has yet been able to accomplish.  Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck filled with hard disks and SSDs. @shriramk One of my lecturers used to say 'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes'... @TundraWolf "AWS Snowmobile moves extremely large amounts of data to AWS. Transfer up to 100 PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot-long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck." @shriramk @RickiTarr to follow someone on a different server on #Mastodon, you have to cut and paste them. This has created an entire new industry of #hipsters who will paste for money @shriramk never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck packed full with drives, right? @Dave  @toxtethogrady Genetically, maybe a bit more like this? (From Mainzer Fastnacht, 2015.)  @shriramk makes sense since mastodons are too chonky to move in IP packets or avian carriers @shriramk If I find out they put a fedi data center in the old Swansea Mall (just off I-195) my head gonna xplode!!!   @shriramk in fact *any message* you send is shipped to a destination near you by a toot bus. I marvel about this intricate network.  @shriramk  @shriramk This reminds me of my favorite creaky old nerd bandwidth heuristic: will the upload you are contemplating finish faster or slower than loading a station wagon full of hard disks and driving it to the colo.  this is an upgrade from the earlier Avian Internet Protocol; mastodons have higher latency but much higher throughput than pigeons ๐๏ธ kidding, not kidding: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149 https://web.archive.org/web/20140214132432/http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup.html @alexch You're one of those still stuck on IPv4, aren't you. RFC 6214 or GTFOH. @shriramk "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." Andrew S. Tanenbaum - *Computer Networks*, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)   @shriramk @bobo_of_id thatโs why itโs so slow. Now we know, and knowing is half the battle |
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