Thinking about self-hosting my own single-user Mastodon server...

Anybody know if it's possible to migrate posting history?

I've seen github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i, which pretty clearly suggests it's not possible normally, but is there any hacky workaround if you're creating the server from scratch yourself, rather than migrating between public servers?

Also, anybody tried Pleroma, or other alternatives, that might be more lightweight to make self-hosting cheaper & easier?

Seems less featured, especially for server administrators, but for a single-user instance I run myself that's totally fine.

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@pimterry I haven't used it myself but as an admin I've always evied Pleroma's automatic moderation capabilities

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