People say Mastodon migration is better than Lemmy's, but their documentation says "Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations", am I missing something? - eviltoast

I’ve seen a few comments in the other thread about community centrization

Your following, blocking, muting, and domain-blocking lists can be imported at Settings > Import, where they can either be merged or overwritten.

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export

Seems pretty similar to the way we manage it with Lemmy at the moment (settings menu, export JSON, import JSON), am I missing something?

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Mars is currently getting closer to the Earth in their orbits, so this may be both figuratively and literally true.

    But yea it’s hard. Federated social media is by definition a harder problem than centralized ones. It’s more flexible and malleable, but building such systems is always a mess.

    Also (sorry, this is getting anecdotal again), I recently read up on the inner workings of ActivityPub and uuh… I gotta say I am actively disheartened by its complexity. It is an exceedingly flexible protocol, but that flexibility comes at a very high complexity cost. I am not convinvced it is as simple as it could have been, unfortunately.