{"id":5955,"date":"2022-12-08T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:06:29","slug":"burned-by-mastodon-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2022\/12\/08\/burned-by-mastodon-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Burned by Mastodon, AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following on the heels of my last post about Mastodon<\/a>, unfortunately it seems I’ve been burned again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much like how when I first tried Mastodon a few years ago and the instance I joined just up and vanished without warning, today I tried to log on and found that my account<\/a> just… didn’t exist anymore? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried to log in but my credentials were rejected. I went to look at the status for the site, but there really isn’t a “status” page per se, and other users seemed to be posting just fine – so what had happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, here’s where the nature of Mastodon works against it – posts are not easily searchable, and there’s no way to contact people (even the admins of an instance) without a Mastodon account. But I was able to view public posts and eventually found that it seems a database migration was in progress… and by the looks of it, had gone wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I’m just in limbo, waiting for a public post about the status of the instance. Have all my posts vanished into the ether? Or will they be restored once the glitches from the database migration are complete? I have no idea!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sort of thing is what led me to consider trying to run an instance on my own – but it just seemed silly (not to mention prohibitively expensive) to run an entire Mastodon instance for just myself. And, really, if that’s what I wanted… isn’t my blog just the same thing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll continue to wait and see what happens, but suffice to stay, I’m feeling a little char-broiled when it comes to Mastodon at the moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on the heels of my last post about Mastodon, unfortunately it seems I’ve been burned again. Much like how when I first tried Mastodon a few years ago and the instance I joined just up and vanished without warning, today I tried to log on and found that my account just… didn’t exist anymore?… Continue reading Burned by Mastodon, AGAIN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[203,3,10],"tags":[504,473],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","category-personal","category-rants","tag-mastodon","tag-social-media","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1y3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5963,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2022\/12\/10\/the-mastodon-saga-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":5955,"position":0},"title":"The Mastodon Saga Continues","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Following up on my last post about being burned by Mastodon (again), I ended up re-creating my account with the same name on that server. 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