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At last I managed to migrate my followers from my previous fedi account. This functionality was recently introduced to #GoToSocial, and I must say, it works really well on this side. Maybe I should have temporarily turned off follow requests for this, though, but other than having to press Approve a tons of times, it seems to have gone flawlessly.
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kimothy siddon
kimothy siddon
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glad it's worked out well for you :)
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modulux
modulux
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Thanks! And I think it's good to say when things go well, not just when there are problems. :) I was scared of doing the migration but now it turned out to be a really easy and effective thing.
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ben
ben
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Ah that's useful to know! I'm still not sure if I want to run my own fedi server, but it'd almost certainly be GTS if I did, and in that case I'd want to be able to migrate followers.
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modulux
modulux
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Yep, if you're considering it, deployment is very easy. There's a docker thing but for those of us who are simple people you can just put up a binary and reverse proxy it with Apache or Nginx.

I've been running it since October 2022. My database is about 15GB, and grow very slowly at this point. The media cache is around 9GB.

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Samuel Proulx
Samuel Proulx
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Does gts support the push notification api yet? I went with pluroma because it supports notifications on iOS apps.
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modulux
modulux
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I don't think so but I'm not sure, since I don't use them myself. My clients of choice are Semaphore and TW Blue.
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Samuel Proulx
Samuel Proulx
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Good, that means I don’t have to consider migrating lol. I don’t love pluroma, but I dislike the direction mastodon is headed, and it’s the only alternative that has the API endpoint I want.
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modulux
modulux
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Might be worth asking GTS devs if they have any plans for that. It doesn't appear on the roadmap, so at a guess it is not a priority. I guess it's a big deal for mobile users, since it should save quite a bit of battery and such.
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Samuel Proulx
Samuel Proulx
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A lot of mobile apps just won’t do notifications at all without it. No other way to make it reliable.
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modulux
modulux
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Devs say while it's not in the immediate plans it will probably be done eventually.
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