People say Mastodon migration is better than Lemmy's, but their documentation says "Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations", am I missing something?

sabreW4K3 , 1 hour ago

Mastodon has a redirect. I believe that’s the only thing missing.

Blaze OP , 1 hour ago

Thanks. I guess at the moment people manually redirect using pinned posts in communities and in their old profile bio.

aasatru , 39 minutes ago

On Mastodon it's all about who you're following and who you're being followed by, so being able to move somewhere else and take your followers with you is a big deal.

On the Threadiverse we don't really follow users so much, so the whole concept of account migration becomes very different. Migration of communities rather than of users would probably be the best parallel - it would be great if subscribers could automatically follow a migrating community without having to manually resubscribe.

Blaze OP , 30 minutes ago

I see. On the other hand, I’ve done it a few times (you announce it beforehand, create the new community, lock the old community with a pinned post) and it’s usually okay. Not ideal of course, but still not a breaking point.

The argument I’ve seen a few times is that “communities should be able to move all of their posts and comments elsewhere, on Mastodon it’s possible”, but it doesn’t seem to be the case from the OP.

aasatru , 19 minutes ago

Ah yeah, it's not possible on Mastodon either. Your content stays where it is.

I think it's even less of a problem on the Threadiverse than it is on Mastodon though. Most people are interested in new content here, we rarely go digging too much through the archives. Though it would of course be neat.