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With my old #friendica host shutting down I've decided to try my hand at self-hosting an instance over on my "My Social Portal" domain (like my Matrix server). So this is my new account for the time being (maybe forever who knows). I'd say follow the blue checkmark but that doesn't always propagate. My old @Hank G account though will disappear when that server shutsdown in a 2 weeks
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silverwizard
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Why not use the profile move feature?
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Hank G ☑️
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I tried. This is as close as it got it appears...at least for now.
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silverwizard
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Ah, crap
Am I the only person who got the good experience with it where nothing went wrong?
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Hank G ☑️
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Maybe, not sure. It imported a bunch of profile data but contacts were a bust. All the groups came over but they aren't populated. It also didn't send out notifications to people either. I don't know what it does beyond that. Like in terms of routing etc. But on my D* and Friendica test accounts I didn't see any notifications about this account being associated/replacing my old account.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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I am already following this new account through no action on my part which tells me the move went at least partially good!
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Hank G ☑️
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I wish you showed up in my contacts already :). Did you have to initiate a friend request or did that happen automagically?
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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Happened automagically! Which tells me this could be abused by a spammer. 🤔
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Hank G ☑️
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So maybe it just needs a long time to propagate through the system and the only ones that show up are the ones that I agree to reconnect with. I'd love to know why it's taking so long if the system is mostly idle. but I still haven't received it on other accounts I have that were linked to the social.isurf.ca one...
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Hank G ☑️
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@JB Carroll Ironically I had to manually add you just now. I need to see if there is more in depth documentation about what the end user should be expecting from the migration experience as it unfolds etc.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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Unfortunately this is an area we have been neglecting as we rarely have to move nodes ourselves. As a result the testing costs are pretty high and we usually take the path of least resistance in our work.
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Hank G ☑️
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@Hypolite Petovan Simulating real world is complicated as well without using actual real world data. You'd have to simulate networks of nodes with lots of cross connections, dead nodes, old nodes, etc.
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