Okay, if anyone is seeing this I managed to move this instance from a server in Sweden to a server in Germany (edit: Oops. Actually: Finland), managing to copy and restore the database, and hopefully keeping most stuff intact… 😅
If things are “misbehaving” for a while longer it’s because the domain name has moved to a new ip address and that pointer has to be removed and refreshed in various caching systems.
I am learning so much and having great fun experimenting, I have to say.
Per Axbom
Taking my server offline in 20 minutes. Will attempt a server migration. Outage will likely last at least a few hours... We'll see 😂
@samuel
I use my Ghost blogs (self-hosted) as the newsletter platform as well. So each newsletter is a blog post that is also sent out as a newsletter.
(Not every post is a newsletter)
https://axbom.com/tag/newsletter/
Today I had the first introduction to the remote course I'm attending this semester at Umeå university. The topic is Media, Communication and Sustainability.
The first assignment is due on Friday and I'm almost done. Obviously excited about going back to school.
Wanted to share: I was very heart-warmed by the fact that the logo on all slides is complemented with the university name written in a Sámi language.
So instead of Umeå universitet (Swedish) the written part of the logo reads Ubmejen Universitiähta (Ume Sámi).
If you are unaware, the Sámi are indigenous to large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
This university is located in the north-east of Sweden and I was glad to see their recognition of the Sámi in a prominent position on every single slide.
I have about 50 links I want to include in my newsletter. Which is too much. So I've been postponing my newsletter while I figure out how to prioritise.
Meanwhile the number of links keep increasing...
@aral I've always heard this was a design critique specifically directed at hostile architecture but now I feel more unsure.
@Catweazle @stooovie
This appears to be the best clue I’ve found:
“Artist Fabian Brunsing tackled similar themes with a piece which criticizes the privatization of our public spaces.”
@dinkompismia Har läst ikapp. Usch vilken obehaglig händelse. Hoppas du fått/får tid och ro för återhämtning och bearbetning.
@LeoR1010 Väldigt tacksam att du är här Leo. Svårt att komma på någon som är mer jordnära och reflekterande. Du uppmuntrar till mer eftertanke hos mig.
@m
Very good points. I really need to do a writeup on all these insights!
@joeldebruijn
@joeldebruijn In the end I had no problem moving across followers from Mastodon to Akkoma. (works the same way as Mastodon to Mastodon instance migration and you have to redirect your old account). I did lose thousands of followers but as I’ve written about I believe those to be abandoned accounts. Which means it was probably a good thing :)
Follows works with exporting and importing a csv file.
https://axbom.me/notice/ARb5w5wAjbb9PcCoVM
@deltatux Ah, interesting. Thanks!
Don't mind me. Just adding some posts that can be pinned to my profile, as one does. 😁
(Noticing that Mastodon doesn't seem to do a good job of interpreting bullet lists in Markdown nor HTML).
One way of getting to know me is my writing and my talks.
Here is a selection of posts within the areas of Digital Ethics, Human Rights, Usability, Accessibility and more – all with a leaning towards design and communication theory.
- The Elements of Digital Ethics
- AI and Human Rights - video and transcript
- The Trouble Diamond
- Design for Universal Wellbeing
- The world map that reboots your brain
- The slavery supported by that device in your pocket
- Tech addiction: Why it matters
- Digital Compassion: A Human Act
- Fairy tale experiences talk at UXLx - my first talk on design ethics in front of an international audience
- 25 years of online resilience - a newsletter about #indieweb
- Digital abuse is hard to leave – by design
I teach, consult and write about these issues. If you want to know more, don’t hesitate to contact me.
@Mabande @dinkompismia Sicken serendipity! Nu har jag lagt till den där boken på läslistan också. 😊
@dudleytribune I’m not sure if you have misunderstood something. Twitter is not involved in this at all. I’m moving from a self-hosted Mastodon instance to a self-hosted Akkoma instance.
I agree about followers not being a useful metric, but the assumption here is that if someone follows me in the Fediverse they don’t want to just suddenly lose contact when an account moves to another instance.
@joho I fully agree. If people don’t feel comfortable moving around we are back to being dependent on centralisation.
@jerome Haha, amazing. Yes, it feels like it will take a few days for all this to get sorted. The follow request essentially means that that the re-follow has been queued. I don’t have approval of follows, activated, so it’s really just waiting for all those follow requests to get sorted one-by-one.
Status update. I initiated the migration from my previous account to this one almost 23 hours ago – a migration from Mastodon to Akkoma (a fork of Pleroma).
My follower count at time of move was 3,660. So far 986 of those followers have auto-followed the new account (meaning they support and accept the Move request). The old account indicates that 120 followers are still followers of that account. Likely they do not support the Move request.
What this does mean though is that 2,554 followers are right now in limbo. 😅
My thinking is that the automation of re-follows is just queued and taking a while. But it is unclear for how long the re-follow requests will keep trying before they are canceled.
I also experienced plenty of hiccups during many hours after I started the migration, unable to see a lot of updates. The server has likely been extremely busy trying to sort out the move.
Anyway, it’s an interesting experiment and a good use-case for looking at what one can expect when migrating. I’ll follow up with any significant changes or developments.
My own follower list has just been uploaded and will start making requests as well.
I’ve been looking at this challenge with lost followers during migration. While it may at first seem concerning to someone that I “lost” thousands of followers during a migration I don’t think my migration should be used as an example of this.
My theory is that many of my followers were people who tried out Mastodon for a brief while and then abandoned the service because it wasn’t a good fit for them. They read one of my guides and I just happened to be one of the first people they followed because of this.
As they never log in again the re-follow request is never activated. Which makes sense from a resource-perspective. If a server drops a follow that frees up resources. A re-follow only needs to be activated if that person actually requests to see their timeline.
Instead of being about “lost” followers I think the real issue here may be about how many accounts should be visible indefinitely if the account owner never logs in again. Perhaps it shouldn’t matter.
Of course, if someone puts emotional value in the number of followers it may be a demotivating to migrate knowing that this number will very likely go down. We should probably just let people enter their own follower numbers. Whatever makes someone feel good 😁. In the end this can of course already be done depending on tech savviness.
Anyway, there are bigger issues to address here as well with the architecture when it comes to encouraging true decentralisation and independence, but that is for another day.
@clacke
Thanks. Migration is still underway. Experiencing some hiccups due to all the followers the process is trying to carry over. Good experiment though. :)
@uxpodcast