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Dominik đź”®
@tkdodo.eu

The mastodon server I joined in 2022 is shutting down permanently. > Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive. Yeah totally similar to atproto 🙄

Dominik đź”®
@tkdodo.eu

Haven’t used this account at all, so I don’t care. Tried to log in, googled “mastodon”, got a login page, didn’t work. It said: > If your account is hosted on a different server, you will not be able to log in here. Great, now I need to know the exact thing I signed up on 4 years ago ...

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Dominik đź”®
@tkdodo.eu

Found the actual login page thanks to password manager. Followers 0 Following 0 Posts 0 So nothing lost, but a good example of how choosing a server upon signup is terrible and a potentially irreversible decision.

Marc Lanctot
@sharky6000.bsky.social

Yeah, I loved that it was open source but some design choices really limited its potential. Choosing instance at sign up is also not user friendly, and each instance had separate rules. The most annoying one IMO was quote toot being blocked /unimplemented (refused by the lead dev himself). 🙄