monkee.ch/snac2
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2.git synced 2024-11-22 05:15:04 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity

Updated documentation.

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
default 2024-10-03 20:13:38 +02:00
parent 25ff20cdae
commit d8487e5c9b
2 changed files with 76 additions and 2 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2
doc/snac.1
View file

@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ for a job to be assigned), input or output (processing I/O packets)
or stopped (not running, only to be seen while starting or stopping
the server).
.El
.Ss Migrating an account from Mastodon
.Ss Migrating an account to/from Mastodon
See
.Xr snac 8
for details.

76
doc/snac.8
View file

@ -381,7 +381,81 @@ is supported. Intentionally, the
and
.Pa /following
paths return empty lists.
.Ss Migrating from Mastodon
.Ss Migrating from snac to Mastodon
Since version 2.60, you can migrate your
.Nm
account to other ActivityPub instances. I will describe the process to do it from
.Nm
to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be very different. All
the steps regarding your
.Nm
account must be done from the command line. For the sake of the example, let's
say that you want to migrate from an account named @origin@snac.example.org to
another one named @destination@mastodon.example.com and that both of them
already exist. I've used this very informative page as a guideline:
.Pp
.Lk https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
.Pp
1. On your
.Nm
server, first export your data to CSV by running:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
snac export_csv $SNAC_BASEDIR origin
.Ed
.Pp
You'll find the following CSV files in the current directory:
.Pa bookmarks.csv ,
.Pa blocked_accounts.csv ,
.Pa lists.csv , and
.Pa following_accounts.csv .
.Pp
2. In the web interface of your new Mastodon account, click on
.Vt Preferences
>
.Vt Import and Export
>
.Vt Import
and upload the CSV files one at a time. You must specify the type of
file you are uploading.
.Pp
3. Still in the web interface of your new Mastodon account, click on
.Vt Preferences
>
.Vt Account
>
.Vt Moving From a Different Account ,
then click on
.Vt Create an account alias
and follow the instructions. (When it asks you to
write your old account’s handle, it needs to include the @ at the start
as well as the @ in the middle, in our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
According to the link above, you must wait at least five minutes for
this to be effective.
.Pp
4. Meanwhile, you must tell
.Nm
about your new account by creating an alias from your current one.
So, on your
.Nm
server, run
.Bd -literal -offset indent
snac alias $SNAC_BASEDIR origin "@destination@mastodon.example.com"
.Ed
.Pp
5. Finally, you must order
.Nm
to start the migration process, that will consist in iterating all the
people that follows your account and sending them a
.Vt Move
message, notifying all of them that they must unfollow your old account
and follow the new one. The command is
.Bd -literal -offset indent
snac migrate $SNAC_BASEDIR origin
.Ed
.Pp
This process can be very long and unreliable. I recommend you to read
the document I linked above to know how heartbreaking it can be.
.Ss Migrating from Mastodon to snac
User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass
that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is
not much that can be done, other than importing the list of people you