swicg / activitypub-data-portability

Repository for data portability report and solutions for ActivityPub
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/
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Transfer content for an actor from old server to new server #5

Open evanp opened 7 months ago

evanp commented 7 months ago

The Mastodon Move process does not transfer content like text, polls, images, videos, audio, etc. from the old server to the new server.

If the old server goes down, that data is lost.

It would be good to have a mechanism for transferring the old content to the new server, either as a "move" (no longer exists at the old server) or a "copy" (exists at both old and new server). Or, this can be marked as a non-goal.