#Adult Friendly Servers
# Before the Aethy mastodon server closed, I spent a few days looking for other adult-friendly Mastodon servers. Here’s a list of what I found.
- Burggit (Allows Loli, Swedish law)
- shota.house (Allows Loli, etc, US laws)
- loli.church (Allows Loli, US laws)
- freaksonly
- kinky.business (Porn focus)
- instafops (Furry focus, Australian law)
- ohai (German laws)
- rkgk (Allows Loli, Federates with baraag and aethy, Unknown moderation rules)
- rubber.social (no CSAM, unknown if they allow Loli)
- slippy (Request invite by emailing them, no Loli)
- queer.party (Porn friendly, but not porn focused, German and Scottish laws)
- beige.party (Porn friendly, but not porn focused)
#Looking up Porn Laws
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region
#How to search
# Search your list of followers and people you’re following to find people on other adult instances.
# Some adult instances have a “federation” tab that lists other instances they federate with. Not all of them will be adult servers, but some will be so this can give you more places to check out… This is not to be confused with the “moderated” tab which lists servers that they block.
# The search engine on mastodon.help for “adult” turns up one or two useful results, but not many.
# Adult mastodon instances can be tricky to find through the usual mastodon introductory websites. This is inconvenient, but also comforting in a way. This tends to shield adult instances from too much visibility.
#How to Migrate Between Mastodon Instances
# Migrating means that all of your old followers will automatically follow your new mastodon account instead of your old one. They don’t even have to do anything. But this does NOT copy all of your old posts. If you uploaded a bunch of pictures and forgot to back them up, you can “Download your archive” from the old mastodon instance.
# To migrate you need to have another mastodon account on a new server somewhere, and the old server needs to still be online. You cannot do this if the old instance closes unexpectedly. So assuming you didn’t wait too long, migrating is easy to do.
# Steps to Migrate:
- Log into your account on the NEW mastodon instance
- Go to the Settings > Account
- Click “Create an account alias”
- Type your username and old mastodon account in this style. yourName@theOldServer.com
- Under “Moving from a different account”, Click “Create alias” link
- Then… Log into your account on the OLD mastodon instance
- Go to the Settings > Account
- Under “Move to a different account”, Click “configure it here” link
- Type your username and old mastodon account in this style. yourName@theNewServer.com
- Also type the password for your old account
- Click “Move Followers”
- Done!
#Re-following Your Friends
# Now you need your new account to follow all of your old friends. Here’s how to do that.
- Log into your account on the OLD mastodon instance
- Go to the Settings > Import and export
- To the right of “Follows” click on the CSV download link
- Then… Log into your account on the NEW mastodon instance
- Go to the Settings > Import and export
- Click on “Import”
- Choose “Following list” from the drop-down
- Click the “Browse” button
- Choose the CSV file you downloaded
- Click the “Upload” button
#Downloading Your Pictures
- Log into your account on the OLD mastodon instance
- Go to the Settings > Import and export
- Click “Request your archive”
- Wait a few hours
- Hit F5 to refresh this page, or just revisit it later
- Click “Download your archive”
#Finding Your Pictures
# Now you have a bunch of folders inside folders inside folders, with some random mystery picture hidden suuuuper far inside. Well that’s annoying. Here’s how you get rid of the folders.