Sarah Brown

goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org

I'm Sarah. I'm a Brit who fled to Portugal on account of Brexit, increasing intolerance and the British weather. I like climbing (although I can't do much any more for health reasons) and sailing. This is a Friendica account. Friendica is kinda like Facebook as Mastodon is kinda like Twitter, except they can talk to each other.

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Lagos, Faro, Portugal

Sarah Brown

3 years ago

Sarah Brown
3 years ago

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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Petra

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

no more dyndns? that's a real shame

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Sarah Brown

in reply to Petra 3 years ago

@Petra Shutting down on 31/5/23 apparently.

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Miguel Arroz

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

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

in reply to Miguel Arroz 3 years ago

@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

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

@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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Alexandra Lanes

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

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

in reply to Alexandra Lanes 3 years ago

@Alexandra Lanes that page, however, mentions nothing about Mastodon.

@Alexandra Lanes

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Alexandra Lanes

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

I’m confused. Why would it?

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Sarah Brown

in reply to Alexandra Lanes 3 years ago

@Alexandra Lanes Because that’s what most followers will be using and has an account migration facility.

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Alexandra Lanes

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

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

in reply to Alexandra Lanes 3 years ago

@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

in reply to Sarah Brown 3 years ago

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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3 years ago