dredmorbius@diaspora.glasswings.com
Doc Morbius

Diaspora* Migration & Data Archival: Finding your First Remote-Pod Followers

A critical question in salvaging content is determining what content was federated, and where. This determines which of your posts were federated and whether all comments can be found at a given pod.

To do this, you can look to see what remote profile(s) and pod(s) followed you earliest. If that pod remains active, there's a good chance your full content and comments are probably fully represented there, after that initial follow date.

In my own case, I created my Joindiaspora profile and first posted in May, 2013.

My first non-Joindiaspora follow was from diasp.org on 15 December 2013. That pod remains active. It is most likely that full dicussions will exist there for posts made after that date.

  • pod.orkz followed on 25 December 2013, but is now defunct.
  • pod.geraspora.de followed on 18 January 2014 and remains active.
  • diasp.eu followed on 31 March, 2014 and remains active.
  • diasp.de followed on 6 May, 2014, and remains active.
  • diaspora-fr.org followed on 22 July, 2014 and remains active
  • spyurk.am followed on 11 August, 2014 and remains active.

To determine what remote pod(s) followed you earliest, go to your EARLIEST Notifications "Started Sharing", and look to see what pod the profile comes from (you'll have to hover over the username / avatar to do so. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the highest page number there for your earliest followers.

Note that broken avatar images almost always indicate dead pods. You can safely skip those.

Confirm that the pod itself is still online by loading its URL directly, e.g., https://diasp.org/ TLS/SSL security errors and non-resolution tend to be A Bad Sign.

It's possible that you were unfollowed by all profiles on a given pod, in which case your posts may not appear in full there. You'll need to verify this individually. The more followers you have on a given pod, the more likely your content is federated there.

I'm going to update my Archive-Index script to generate links for early-federating pods based on this information.

Also note that the following-date-by-pod information seems ... hard to extract if not impossible from your data extract. (I've yet to look into this.)

Another implication of this is that loss of large, long-lived pods has a knock-on effect across the entire Diaspora* network as history is wiped out. Mitigations against this would be very useful.

For more information or questions, see Diaspora Migration Tips and Questions Thread

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/e0b4d980545c013a0103448a5b29e257

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