@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Does GoToSocial support mastodon's migration feature? Like is it migrating all the followers as well?

@fediversereport@mastodon.social wow, Bluesky has had a rough day

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online does mastodon have endpoints you can hit that'll follow an account if you're signed in on the server already. For example, if they entered their server, could you have a follow button that links to: mastodon.social/@tom@tomkahe.com/follow

And when you click it, it opens and follows the user? I feel like that was a thing on Twitter, but I might be imagining things

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @glitchdotcom@mastodon.social @eleventy@fosstodon.org it'd be cool if you could sign in w/ your mastodon account and click 'follow all' or something

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online make that 500,000. Twitter must have done something pretty unpopular

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I think it's a little telling that the entire 'decentralized' network can go down but then I figure we might get similar headlines if mastodon.social went down

@_elena@mastodon.social Yeah not sure if this shows up in the Threads app if alt text enabled, but for example this post: https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/DA9LEMtKYHl

has the alt text: "Photo by President Joe Biden on October 10, 2024. May be a black-and-white image of 1 person, smoking, the Oval Office and office." when viewed from my mastodon instance

@_elena@mastodon.social

FWIW, I haven't confirmed this but I think Threads' is using AI to automatically add alt-text to images that don't have it- at least for the federated images based on the weird descriptions I've seen on some of them.

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than having no alt text whatsoever.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @DrakkenZero@retro.pizza that's just a fediverse user, it's a WordPress Blog I think so it's probably using the AP plugin

that link https://socialwebfoundation.org/@swf is just @swf@socialwebfoundation.org

@BeAware@social.beaware.live I dunno, all I ever hear from AP devs is it's impossible to work with because there's no formal org for standardization so they're forced to just conform to how mastodon handles everything

This feels more like Evan taking a larger role in how AP is organized. I'm not even sure what it means to be an 'industry supporter' it sounds like that's just a list of orgs that said 'that's a good idea'

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @ThaMunsta@nervesocket.com From glancing through the github issues it looks like it only does that for account deletions. Though I have no idea how many of these are resolved or no longer function as described in the issues

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22273:

One outstanding issue with Mastodon is that deleting a local account sends a Delete activity to the whole known fediverse to ensure everyone is aware that the account does not exist anymore. This is wasteful, and increasingly so with the growth of the fediverse. It is also a minor privacy concern, as servers who would otherwise not know about an account would learn about its (previous) existence without a good reason.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22154

Currently, posts deleted over a week earlier on one server are still visible on others. For example, I can see (on both mastodon.social and mstdn.social) a post I deleted at the start of December on mstdn.jp. On both of those other servers, it looks like the post is still live and available on mstdn.jp.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22070#issuecomment-1340711206:

To clear up some misunderstanding, Mastodon does not send a Delete to every known server for every deleted post, that would be too expensive. It does send a Delete to every known server for every deleted account though.
I do have some idea on how to improve that (keep track of which servers ever requested an account, using a bloom filter so it remains manageable storage-wise), but it will require some work and will only work for newly-created accounts, not ones that existed before the change was implemented.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6849#issuecomment-1418688876

It's retried a bunch of times, but once every retry is elapsed and the post is deleted, Mastodon stores neither the post's previous existence nor who was supposed to see it, so such a feature would require the admin to provide:
the post's author
the post's exact ID
who to send the deletion notice to

@ThaMunsta @BeAware actually now that you mention it, I'm not sure how Mastodon decides where to send Deletes to

Like, does it maintain a list of all servers that requested your post? That feels excessive but also probably the only way to ensure that every server that has your data deletes it. Or does it just send it to all your followers and servers that boosted/liked it

@BeAware@social.beaware.live yeah weird, it's gotta be a bug because I doubt acm.org is intentionally archiving posts lol

I would hope that mastodon notifies the server if they replied to a deleted post though, in case a delete message falls through

@BeAware@social.beaware.live which instance? That sounds more like a bug than anything, you'd have to go out of your way to reject deletes right or just never receive the DELETE message?