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LWN's Mastodon migration

[Posted April 29, 2025 by corbet]

The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new source.
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Add overview stub to posts

Posted Apr 30, 2025 11:35 UTC (Wed) by mote (guest, #173576) [Link]

I follow LWN via RSS; it would be a nice feature if the Mastodon posts included the one/two sentence article overview in them like the RSS feed. $0.02 :-)

Reason for the move?

Posted Apr 30, 2025 12:05 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (5 responses)

Was this, by any chance, related to recent issues with fosstodon, or was this just because you've been wanting to self-host anyway and have a canonical address you own?

Reason for the move?

Posted Apr 30, 2025 12:10 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (4 responses)

It was both, honestly, along with one other: the Fosstodon site policy is against automated posting, which is what the bulk of our traffic is. They have pondered kicking us off in the past. We finally got around to honoring their policy and moving elsewhere, with current events as the kick that got things moving.

Reason for the move?

Posted Apr 30, 2025 13:19 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

> current events

Is there a pending article or blurb about this?

Reason for the move?

Posted Apr 30, 2025 13:25 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

We were not planning to write any articles. This post is a place to look for more information.

Reason for the move?

Posted May 1, 2025 2:53 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

Looks like the current admins are stepping down:

https://hub.fosstodon.org/were-not-shutting-down

Reason for the move?

Posted May 1, 2025 2:56 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

https://hub.fosstodon.org/update-from-gina

cool, hadnt realized LWN was on Mastodon

Posted Apr 30, 2025 15:42 UTC (Wed) by matp75 (subscriber, #45699) [Link] (3 responses)

just subscribe to it
Didnt know LWN feed was on Mastodon

cool, hadnt realized LWN was on Mastodon

Posted Apr 30, 2025 20:23 UTC (Wed) by pwfxq (subscriber, #84695) [Link] (2 responses)

It's also on Blueksy - but that bot appears to post less than the Mastodon bot.

Bluesky

Posted Apr 30, 2025 20:27 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Interesting ... we have not set up any Bluesky presence. If you're seeing a stream there, somebody else did it...

cool, hadnt realized LWN was on Mastodon

Posted Apr 30, 2025 20:29 UTC (Wed) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link]

... huh. I don't believe we run an official Bluesky syndication. Someone has probably set up a replication of our Mastodon feed or our RSS feed. If people find the Bluesky feed useful, we can probably figure out how to get an official one working.

Bridgy Fed for Bluesky?

Posted Apr 30, 2025 21:14 UTC (Wed) by aaron (guest, #282) [Link] (1 responses)

Looks like your Masto/Fediverse account gets a lot more updates than your Bluesky/atproto account. Any chance you might connect it to https://fed.brid.gy/ so more folks can follow along?

Bridgy Fed for Bluesky?

Posted May 1, 2025 11:33 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250) [Link]

As noted in a few comments posted before yours, LWN does not have an official presence on Bluesky; whatever is there is being done by someone else.

did not follow

Posted May 1, 2025 14:06 UTC (Thu) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354) [Link] (2 responses)

for what it's worth, i was following the account at fosstodon and i did *not* automatically get updated to follow the new account

did not follow

Posted May 1, 2025 14:40 UTC (Thu) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link] (1 responses)

Looking at the numbers, it looks like about half of subscribers have not (yet) migrated between instances, which is a bit disappointing. It may just be a matter of time, or it may be that we've set things up in a way that some Fediverse clients aren't handling well. I'll look into it.

did not follow

Posted May 1, 2025 17:09 UTC (Thu) by Kamiccolo (subscriber, #95159) [Link]

Just a blunt guess, can it be that those followers are not active on Mastodon anymore (or haven't been active lately)?


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