Free advice to dudes and dude-presenting folks: don't follow-and-DM ladies and lady-presenting folks with yer zero-post account. You gotta make some public posts (yes, even if it feels like no one is listening to you yet) to show you're a real human being. Then you participate in a *public* conversation. Then maybe you can DM.
(j/k never DM)
CSV uploaded, gonna go transfer my followers now. See you at @gamehawk@weirder.earth!
CSV uploaded, gonna go transfer my followers now. See you at @gamehawk@weirder.earth!
Okay, searches on the user's url don't work but on the user@domain format do, whatevs. (Probably an encoding issue; I've run into double-encoding situations in this library before.)
But the follow command in the library doesn't work. Bah. Should just build a CSV to import instead. (I'm filtering all the inactive people/duplicates.)
Oh whoops copied a key twice instead of an id, fixed.
Searches all return blank though. 🤔
Okay, so if you search on the user the site should return its local database ID for it so, problem solved probably.
At least, assuming I can get authorization to work for weirder.earth.
I mean... surely clients don't have to go the ActivitySub route for cross-site follows, right?
(suddenly feel like I'm in the Anakin-and-Padme meme)
*this* close to running my little transfer-follows utility except I can't find how to follow someone in the API directly and the (somewhat broken) Mastodon::Client Perl library only knows how to follow based on the numeric ID (which only works for following on your own instance because, uh, I think the library is old enough there was only the one...)
So I've been lurking on weirder.earth today and I think that's where I'm gonna make my new home. I haven't quite decided how I'm going to migrate the account (both follows/followers are full of cruft: abandoned accounts, abandoned instances, etc.) so I'm not posting from there yet (though I'll repost this so my account over there isn't empty).
Criterion 3 also encompasses "large enough to have multiple moderators, ideally with or at least approaching around-the-clock moderation," since I've now had more than one case where a recommended instance had a problematic TL and either the single mod was overworked or AWOL.
Tangentially related: In my Masto client that I'm never gonna get around to writing, it will pop up an alert when the site owner has not posted in a configurable period of time.
*makes direct eye contact with jawns.club*
The problem with changing instances is that I have yet to find another instance that is
1) general purpose (nerd/tech is general enough for my purpose)
2) someplace I won't be the only woman visible on the local TL
3) large enough to have an active local TL
Maybe I should just scrap requirement 1 and meld this with my mastodon.art account, I dunno. It's not as though I've managed to maintain a straight Brand face over there or anything.
Current cold status: went most of the day without taking decongestants 🎉
Kid is now sick too :ohno:
🥨 👵 🌲 🏖️ On the edge of the Pine Barrens between Philly and the Jersey Shore. Elder nerd. She/her.