The Fediverse is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one backup account migration to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.

We just shipped partial Account Migration support!

This means:

- You can migrate from other servers to Pixelfed
- Accounts that migrate between servers will be updated (even if you mute/block them)

We say partial, because we are missing one final piece to support outbound migration to Pixelfed, Mastodon or other platforms.

That final piece will be shipping later today!

I'm mostly at my standalone GoToSocial server these days. I tried migrating this account again, and *this* time I figured out the problem: I'd misconfigured my server's proxy settings and *everything* was getting rate limited.

So next time it should finish - but I have to wait another 29 days for the cooldown. Meanwhile, if you'd like to see what I'm up to lately, feel free to follow me at @kelson

We're aware of some issues in our Account Migration feature that prevents a proper migration.

We're working on a fix, and will update you when we ship the fix!

Hey #Fediverse!

Here's a personal announcement:
I plan to shut down my instance this summer.
I'm trying to shrink the number of different services I am using, to reduce VM and storage costs (reducing costs even more would imply downsizing my servers, which would degrade even more performance of my services).

And I figured that I didn't have very interesting stuff to share lately, everyone on here is already doing a great job in providing the Fediverse with awesome content ^_^.

So I think that, for now, I'm going to "archive" this account and use @clemv (a third-party-hosted Mitra instance) as my main account from now on.

And ultimately the instance will be taken down during the summer.

I may take some time to redirect every link/profile and resub everything there, so don't worry if I'm not following you from the "new" account yet, I'll do so before I take down my instance :)

See you!

#AccountMigration #Migration #InstanceShutdown

hey anyone following my account here! I'm sure I am wayy down in people's feeds bc who even am I, but I will need to move my acct soon as my server is shutting down. Looking for new server suggestions -
I am based in eastern Massachusetts and looking for transit/ environmental/ neighborhood news if possible. The current server is based in Europe and it was a great jam while it lasted.
So far - as other m'don newbs have complained - the servers are overly specific to *one topic* and it's been tough to connect to a bunch of topics - EVEN WITH HASHTAGS, because the hashtags dont always show up.
Dont gimme the How To links either, I already have those - #accountmigration #feditips #massachusetts

Trying to migrate over followers from @blueset@1a23.com to @1a23@1a23.com, since #ActivityPub didn’t have account migration related features, I had to setup all the properties needed for the migration check.

Through trial and error, my move activity was finally sent to all the server inboxes, the previous followers have all unfollowed from the old account, ...


But somehow they never followed my new account described in the action. sad. I lost the 8 followers followed my site & blog.
Given these accounts are all on #Mastodon servers, there must have been some inconsistencies between my payloads and Mastodon’s implementation.

Since these followers are no longer following either the old account nor the new one, there’s no point troubleshooting anymore since they won’t automatically follow back again.

If you’re interested in what was going on there, check out them below ↓

@1a23@1a23.com
@1a23@blog.1a23.com

#Fedidev #AccountMigration

After #AccountMigration:
Have I followed all of you back?

Because the first thing I do is post giant media files here have a giant media file. #mastoart #accountmigration #pixelart (Clip Studio Paint.)