Mastodon: Migration from GNU Social to Mastodon

[dasj19]

Hello, I host my own GNU Social instance and I've been looking at moving to Mastodon but I don't want to start all over again with followers, posts, and so on.

Is there a way to migrate data from an existing GNU Social instance to a new Mastodon instance?

[nightpool]

@dasj19 you can import a list of the people you're following, to populate
the instance with, but we don't currently support importing posts (although
it's been talked about)

I don't know what the deal is with followers... hmm....... it's an
interesting question, maybe you could hack something together with
webfinger redirects?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 5:59 PM dasj19 [e-mail] wrote:

Hello, I host my own GNU Social instance and I've been looking at moving
to Mastodon but I don't want to start all over again with followers, posts,
and so on.

Is there a way to migrate data from an existing GNU Social instance to a
new Mastodon instance?

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[rugk]

you can import a list of the people you're following

Hmm,. but I could not find a way to export taht in GNUSocial…

[archaeme]

If the admin of the GNU Social instance enables data export, you could retrieve the followers list from it, though I don't think many do enable it since it's kinda broken. I think there's also a script that can make that export file but that too needs to be run by the admin.

[benediktg]

I have written a python script that allows to export a list of followed users from GNU social which you can then import to mastodon. → https://github.com/benediktg/gnu-social-export