Lin Jen-Shin

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So I am trying to immigrate to https://t.co/IWvFYHPwaV

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@hiroshiyui 也不是蘋果客服啊（忍不住）

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@oneminlaw 我搬家到 https://t.co/es6SnDIdQm 了

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@PacStandardTW After a bit of study I now see this is not as easy as I thought. Not sure if it's an implementation issue, or an issue in ActivityPub. I also see this: https://t.co/zMqnQsluIW

It does appear that while it's possible to migrate Mastodon data, it's not ideal.

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@PacStandardTW I believe all of the Mastodon users can also request the posts from all of the Mastodon instances as well, provided that data is there. It might not be, but it can have too. That'll be similar to relays.

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@PacStandardTW In case you might be interested, my takes on my short experience following Lemmy from Mastodon: https://t.co/Yp0dREUDSW

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@PacStandardTW I'll keep looking and update my take moving forward.

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@PacStandardTW Here's my guess. Maybe relays are based on blockchain, so it does save everything, and so it would be super expensive to run one. They mentioned amateurs multiple times and I think they meant to let professionals to run relays and charge people for the service.

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@PacStandardTW In that regard it's similar to ActivityPub? I see it might be quite complex and some of the use cases don't work on it like videos. That happens on all older protocols though.

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@PacStandardTW Hopefully that's the case. In general I feel a lot of the solutions are really similar in concept, and they sooner or later still hit into the same problem. So getting more people to use like JavaScript is my take.

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@PacStandardTW My concern is that this feels fragmented. Does all the relay store all my posts? If so, it's still super expensive. If not, how do I get the full posts?

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@PacStandardTW Super expensive so they probably cannot run their own instance. Some replication services are likely needed. For someone who can't reach that far though, running their own shouldn't be too difficult. Maybe nostr is targeting super popular profiles?

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@PacStandardTW I see the main difference are that nostr has build-in signing mechanism, which is nice. It also has payment build-in, which I don't know if it's good but if it helps maintain the service, sure. I see Mastodon has an issue if one person is really popular, hosting for them will be

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@PacStandardTW So I can be wrong point 3 and 4 are fair and I agree.

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@PacStandardTW to be fully independent. c) Data duplication is needed to run efficiently across different instances. It's a trade off like other trade offs. A lot of the issues mentioned will also happen for any blockchain based tech. That all said, I didn't check what exactly nostr is doing