Chose the form!
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It seems off to have to sign-up to a particular package for this. It should be a distributed group of some kind.
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Hopefully more news organizations do the same, even if it’s only a X-echo.
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Alternatives to Mastodon, readers, tools, stuff:
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A recent post by Fedi.Tips had an interesting concept:
- On Mastodon, and others, everything is available as an RSS feed.
- You can follow an RSS feed.
So, if your instance doesn’t have much traffic on a tag that you want to follow, you can reach over, and follow the tag on another instance that does.
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Poot! Apparently stock Mastodon doesn’t support following RSS feeds. Odd, because it seems like something that should be automatic with ActivityPub. Missing code, or a design decision? 
That’s a shame. It’s useful for selectively following people, but only on tagged subjects.
I am disappointed, because I had a project in mind where would be a key feature.
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A nine month long thread suddenly appeared on my instance, after someone I follow reshared one post from an hour ago. It’s not a bad thing, just unexpected at first. It reminds me of the old pre-Internet days of Usenet, when a weeks-old reply would suddenly turn up from a site several dodgy hops off the backbone.
On my end:
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And so it begins…
Another one rides the ActivityPub:
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I’m trying to figure out whether to abandon my current Mastodon account (which isn’t seeing all that much use, but still) and set up a new one or learn how to migrate the current one because I unfortunately used my deadname in my username when I set the account up pre-transition.
I found some account migration instructions here, and I’m a little confused by this (in the Profile Move section):
Moving your account is the same as redirecting your account, but it will also irreversibly force everyone to unfollow your current account and follow your new account, if their software supports the Move activity.
This sounds like it means that if I do this process, anyone currently following me will automatically end up following my new account (if their software supports it), which sounds … improbable? I keep thinking I’m misunderstanding that. Has anyone here done this before?
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Meh. The details of how it works is confusing, but using it isn’t that bad.
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Yay quoting myself! Update for anyone else who might need to do this: I finally got around to moving my Mastodon account, and it worked exactly the way the instructions said. I set up the new account, and it had me first go into the settings on the new account and add the old handle as an alias, then go to the old account to do the move. It was completely painless, and the people who were following my old account are now following the new one. Someone told me that followers don’t always transfer over all at once, and that was the case with mine, but the process was done in about a half hour.
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