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So it looks like I cocked up when setting my friendica server up using DynDNS, because apparently the service is going away at the end of May. Friendica contains a “migrate node” function, but apparently it basically doesn’t work.

So it looks like I’m going to have to create a new server and then try to migrate my account. I think that it should pull my followers, as a Mastodon migration would, but I have no idea if it’s actually going to work.

Arse.

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Miguel Arroz
Miguel Arroz
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That sucks. 😟 Doesn't help with your migration, but if you're looking for alternatives, I've been using noip and it pretty much works.
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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@Miguel Arroz looked some more about what Oracle are doing, and it seems the domain may keep going. They’re really not at all clear about what they’re actually planning to turn off. They have a whole plethora of similarly named products which presumably makes sense to them, but they forget that most people don’t actually work for them and don’t understand the minutiae of their sales structure.
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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@arroz My limited experience of Oracle was that it was basically impossible to persuade them to sell you anything unless you were a large corporation.
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Sion [main]
Sion [main]
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@ajlanes I suspect I would be in breach of my employment conditions to post about my experience of Oracle sales. (Or OCI, for that matter.) Let's just say that being a large corporation is necessary but not sufficient.
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Alexandra Lanes
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It looks from github.com/friendica/friendica… like Friendica can do what Mastodon does.

friendica/Move-Account.md at develop · friendica/friendica

Friendica Communications Platform. Contribute to friendica/friendica development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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Sarah Brown
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@Alexandra Lanes Because that’s what most followers will be using and has an account migration facility.
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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But your followers don’t need to do anything. Their instances just receive the messages that your new Friendica instance will send saying you’ve moved, and act accordingly.
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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@Alexandra Lanes Will it? It says it does that for Friendica. It doesn't say it does it for AP in general.
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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The more I look at it the less convinced I am that it works over anything other than Friendica’s own DFRN protocol so you may be right 🙁
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