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A free, open-source social network software based on ActivityPub
A network of independent social media sites powered by Mastodon

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Instance shut down (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by AffectionateAge8787@alien.top to c/mastodon

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Hi, I'm relatively new to mastodon and my instance appears to have shut down without notice. Very frustrating. I didn't do the sensible thing of backing up my account (albeit didn't post that often so not so bothered about content, and setting up a blog soonish). I want to move my account so my followers follow the new one, can I make that happen without being able to log into the old account? Or do I have to start from scratch and just chalk this up to experience? I really value being on mastodon and decentralised alternatives to corporation run services despite the learning curve involved. TIA for any help you can give.

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[–] InfiniteHench@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That sucks, sorry to hear it. As far as I know, account migration requires the old instance to still be running, because there’s some sort of handshake between the instances to move the data. Do you know your instance admin? Can you find out what happened?

[–] MrFlibble1980@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes sadly.

I bet in future there will be a way of being able to search other instances to find posts by yourself on peoples' accounts that followed you, as some of it will be cached, but it would take a long time and a lot of network traffic I expect, and depending on other servers' media retention policies, you might not get all your attachments either.