maple classic™ @squirrel@computerfairi.es

@tom sorry nevermind, it was something else i messed up

@tom ty friend

@tom the difference is when i tried to look it up i was met with no answers other than snarky replies, as is usual for non-docker admins towards docker admins

mastodon is a divided house

@tom you are the first person to tell me this in almost a year of owning a mastodon instance

@vahnj i need to have this, we don't have backups

hope i can upgrade computer fairies without killing it

i don't like upgrading because it takes upwards of 20 minutes on a docker instance and i don't know how to backup docker databases so every time i upgrade computer fairies it could be gone forever

@bea @noelle no, @squ1rrel was properly deleted from the control panel and it is now just as broken as @squirrel was when i had to delete its account record to be able to recreate it

i guess i'll have to upgrade to 1.6 now if everyone's gonna be talking about it all day

@bea @noelle this is exactly what I expected to already happen, by the way.

@noelle @bea I think deleting all user data (including propagating to remote instances so followers stop following the account, which is my issue specifically) and suspending the account so an admin has to unsuspend and maybe change the password so it can be used again is a good compromise, if the account can then be used again with no user data remaining.

@bea and honestly, it should be.

@bea still doesn't imply irreversibleness towards the username. "reserved" sounds like it could be reactivated.

@tinybarks@meows.life sure it's hard but people seem to be making zero effort towards making it not be this broken

instead they use disclaimers to cover their ass for not having to implement real functions

@bea also, "undeleting cannot be done" is ambiguous and not the same as "you will never have your old handle back but without your old toots"

@bea yes, it's not without warning. but it's not a good stance.

mastodon as a software and as a project ethos has zero regard for people who want to delete all their toots and start over on their same old handle. if you delete your account you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR OLD HANDLE BACK WITHOUT BREAKING FEDERATION AND THE LOCAL INSTANCE DATABASE

@revenant no

@vahnj i just got in a mastodev argument on github over this, crom

activitypub isn't gonna solve this over ostatus yet