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2025-03-08 00:45:52

Mitex Leo

ml@mitexleo.one

Is it possible to migrate mastodon account to Hubzilla?

#mastodon #hubzilla #fediverse

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2025-03-08 08:32:20

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Mitex Leo Short answer: no.

To my best knowledge, Hubzilla cannot import anything from Mastodon. No posts, no followed, especially no followers.

(streams) can import CSV-formatted follow lists; I don't know if Mastodon can export them, or if Mastodon has its own proprietary follow list format. But (streams) cannot make your followers on Mastodon your followers on (streams) because it cannot make people follow you. Also, (streams) cannot import posts from Mastodon.

Mass-importing 5,000+ connections from Mastodon to Hubzilla or (streams) would be a stupid idea anyway. You'd have to go through all of them and configure them. Yes, whereas Mastodon only has "I follow you" and "I don't follow you", Hubzilla and (streams) have extensive configuration options for connection. And you will need them.

You'd have to edit 5,000+ connections, one by one, and

assign them the appropriate contact role (Hubzilla)/permission role ((streams)) so that they have the right permissions (on Hubzilla and (streams), everything is permissions, and permissions are everything)
add them to one or multiple privacy groups (Hubzilla)/access lists ((streams)) (think Mastodon lists, but on lots of coke and 'roids; optional on Hubzilla, but highly recommended)
maybe also adjust the (optional) affinity (Hubzilla)/friend zoom ((streams)) slider
maybe even add lines to the (optional, but recommended) per-contact filter lists (you'll need to do this on Hubzilla to keep contacts from spamming you with boosts)

Neither Hubzilla nor (streams) is something that you can join and use away on 100% bone-stock default settings just like that.

And truth be told: If you give 5,000+ Fediverse actors full permissions to send you all their stuff, your unread activities counter (this exists, yes) will be up to "99+" every few minutes. I myself don't even have 100 active connections that are allowed to send me anything. On some of them, I filter boosts out. And yet, I get well over 100 unread activities per day that I have to catch up with.

In fact, Hubzilla and (streams) will suck even more content onto your stream than Mastodon. That's because they support threaded conversations. They don't show you single posts. They show you whole threads, including comments by people whom you don't follow and who didn't mention you.

I don't know if you follow Eugen Rochko. But if you do, imagine he posts something. 200 people reply. On Mastodon, you get Rochko's post. On Hubzilla and (streams), you get Rochko's post and 200 replies flooding onto your stream by and by.

Seriously, if you really want to move to Hubzilla (or (streams)), start over from scratch. And go slowly instead of following shit-tons of people right off the bat to have your stream abuzz like on Twitter or Facebook.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)

2025-03-08 08:52:25

Daniel de Kay

danieldekay@masto.ai

@ml Do you mean including content?

1. Your ID is specific to the server you are hosted on. If your server would change software, you could keep the id, I guess.
2. On #Mastodon, #migration usually is more a redirect with followers ideally auto-following the new account. There will be some issues with that if you are moving to #Hubzilla.
3. History/data migration is not possible. Might require a custom script.

Here’s a perplexity overview. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-it-possible-to-migrate-from-uBRMIZcyS46P1sX_oBSymQ

2025-03-09 20:05:55

Mitex Leo

ml@mitexleo.one

@jupiter_rowland Thank you so much 🙏 ..

2025-03-09 20:06:13

Mitex Leo

ml@mitexleo.one

@danieldekay @ml ❤️