* Mastodon - Options for Moving an Account ? *
*** "Take your information and do what you want with it." ***
That suggestive text sounds like Freedom of movement is granted and important, doesn't it? That is directly copied from Documents at JoinMastodon.org -https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/.
The truth is less rosy though. There are easy and reliable ways to :
* Export the list of people you Follow.
* Export lists of people you Mute (hiding their posts from your view)
* Export lists of people and instances you Blocked (barring their content reaching you).
But, sadly -- your personal data, all the Toots you spent time in, the images and videos contained in them. Not easily accessible.
If an instance dies (and it does happen), it's all Lost. We need better. Facebook is now offering a wonderful User Data Export tool.
I love Writing, so this is Long Form prose. Lavishly illustrated, References and links included. A Web Magazine page I am proud of.
[That is the Topic of today's Blog -- https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/mastodon-options-for-moving-an-account.
* This post is dedicated to *maique* https://mastodon.social/@maique, a fellow user who also has looked into an account move.
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Please see Original post for my intended / desired Formatting : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104388871738662235
** Follow Up, new development -- I was able to open and view the Data Backup archive for all my account data.
Details and snapshots : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104391279268230817
Attached: 2 images ## Looking at our Personal Data Backups from Mastodon Instances Continuing my learning about the user data backups offered by mastodon instances, I started asking questions, and found some answers. The very first tip was that JSON.awk could be used to view the backup files. A number of browser tabs were added to the already large number in use here. Linux or Unix systems would handle it easier. I am a Windows user, comfortable on machines I keep tuned and running well, smooth and productively, so that was not ideal. But just now, a friend gave me a good pointer -- and I managed to look inside my personal archive from my other account for the very first time. 🙂 My archive for a 7.5 months old mastodon (quite active) account contains : * 2,343 files. * 478 Million Bytes * just over 7,000 individual Toots, along with their images if any. My friend suggested I [could be able to view the JSON file here](https://jsoneditoronline.org/) (JSON Editor Online) And -- it worked, Two snapshots : * my **very first post**, as shown in my **data backup view**, in the editor. * and the same post, my Hello World in full color, screenshot from my Waterfox browser. Thanks B for this! 🙂 #FediReporter on the case...
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