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| author | default <nobody@localhost> | 2024-10-08 09:30:43 +0200 |
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| committer | default <nobody@localhost> | 2024-10-08 09:30:43 +0200 |
| commit | 076d74935ca8da0d9c459c57b1b32993f6ff7854 (patch) | |
| tree | aa62aa731bff8c9bddbc492fbd1436218da8d00d /doc | |
| parent | 12373b018e985ba0bc5628dcaceb7c406a350e45 (diff) | |
Updated documentation.
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@@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ paths return empty lists. .Ss Migrating from snac to Mastodon Since version 2.60, you can migrate your .Nm -account to other ActivityPub instances. I will describe the process to do it from +account to other ActivityPub instances. What is described here is the process to do it from .Nm -to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be very different. All +to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be somewhat different. All the steps regarding your .Nm account must be done from the command line. For the sake of the example, let's @@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ then click on .Vt Create an account alias and follow the instructions. (When it asks you to write your old account’s handle, it needs to include the @ at the start -as well as the @ in the middle, in our example, @origin@snac.example.org). -According to the link above, you must wait at least five minutes for -this to be effective. +as well as the @ in the middle; as of our example, @origin@snac.example.org). +It seems this step is not performed immediately, you must wait an unspecified +number of minutes for this to be effective. .Pp 4. Meanwhile, you must tell .Nm @@ -447,14 +447,15 @@ snac alias $SNAC_BASEDIR origin "@destination@mastodon.example.com" to start the migration process, that will consist in iterating all the people that follows your account and sending them a .Vt Move -message, notifying all of them that they must unfollow your old account +message, that acts as a suggestion to unfollow your old account and follow the new one. The command is .Bd -literal -offset indent snac migrate $SNAC_BASEDIR origin .Ed .Pp -This process can be very long and unreliable. I recommend you to read -the document I linked above to know how heartbreaking it can be. +This process can be very long and unreliable; any destination server may be down, +too busy, disconnected or gone. I recommend you to read the document I linked +above to know about all the sorrows awaiting. .Ss Migrating from Mastodon to snac User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is |