Is there a way of finding a good instance? The idea of accidentally joining a bad instance and not realizing is causing me some weird starter anxiety
I appreciate the thoughtful response!
I appreciate the thoughtful response!
Edit: I do love mindly.social for a more laid back/be nice overall sentiment. Although this week I decided to move back to mastodon.social because of the comments/replies thing I mentioned in my other comment here
I went for fosstodon.org, as I think this suits my interests well enough, but there are other general or broad topic instances out there.
And the second thing is the type of instances that are blocking mastodon.social: based on what I usually see going on on mastodon and lemmy, they are probably instances focusing heavily of LGBTQ+ or other marginalized communities. So unless that's the most important thing to you, you won't miss it.
quick note: those communities can be REALLY annoying sometimes. I remember seeing people mentioned that they got jumped in because they posted food pics without content warning, in an instance about.... food and cooking. So, if instances like this are blocking mastodon.social... go ahead
Adding an 'originally-posted' field to exports, and allowing mass-posting on the target should technically work, and non-technically be a tricky problem.
The Mastodon API (currently the defacto API for Fedi clients) has no support for backdated posts (see [1]) and servers will push out any status you create to your followers which would mean a deluge of previously seen content. Backdating and a flag for "do not push out backdated posts" could be added[2] but there's a whole raft of problems that come along with it (resource usage for large accounts, who can use the functionality, how do you stop abuse, etc.)
[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#create
[2] I fudged this into my Akkoma instance to let me backfill history from a Twitter bot.