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Written by Si Dawson on 2024-12-06 at 00:06

Ok, that's exciting.

Moved from mastodon.nz. The transfer somehow ate

a) all my settings (eg my 2k+ filters)

b) all my following

Despite exporting everything before I started (utterly useless information there).

So, looks like I'll need to manually refollow everything. Please be patient.

Ugh. Fucking mastodon eh?

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Written by essjax on 2024-12-06 at 00:22

@sidawson the filters need exporting and importing, but the followers should catch up I think?

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Toot

Written by Joshua Leung on 2024-12-06 at 06:51

@essjax @sidawson

Just got around to doing an export / dump of my own account, since I realised it's been a while since I've done that!

Can confirm that it looks like Filters are one of those things it doesn't export at all (strange how I thought it might've n the past?), with an outstanding Github Ticket for implementing support for doing that 🙄

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30174

One of the biggest archilles heels of Mastodon / Fediverse is really the data portability.

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Descendants

Written by essjax on 2024-12-06 at 06:53

@aligorith @sidawson yeah just realising that I don't use filters, that's why it wasn't an issue for me 😬

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Written by Si Dawson on 2024-12-06 at 07:17

@aligorith Agreed. Like, the stuff that's the hardest to replicate - surely that should be the focus of what to move?

But hey, I'm not a mastodon dev. Who knows where their attention is

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Written by Joshua Leung on 2024-12-06 at 07:27

@sidawson

LOL, probably trying to hide the evne more scrollbars, add more floaty buttons no-one uses, and make those obscene "banners" even worse looking. 😜

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Written by Joshua Leung on 2024-12-06 at 07:29

@sidawson

Am reminded again that one of the hobby projects deep down on my list is to finally look into the Mastodon / ActivityPub API myself at some point, and build up a personal suite of overpowered tools for wrangling them. :P

(But yeah, a quick search yielded a Python script with a TK gui that claimed to be able to scrape Filter data using the API. Hopefully that may still be usable for you?)

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Written by Si Dawson on 2024-12-06 at 07:55

@aligorith Naw, too late. My account there has been killed/locked/something. I don't know. Anyway, I can't see anything on it anymore. c'est la vie.

But yeah, overpowered tools to scratch a personal itch? Hell to the yes. Huge fan.

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Written by Si Dawson on 2024-12-06 at 07:55

@aligorith Ahh ha ha. Yeaaah, I have quiiiite a few css tweaks to calm all that nonsense the hell down, lol

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