Mass-follow

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Hello,

One thing that’s really hard right now for me is following people. Basically I have to follow people one by one and I have a list - either from mastodon or from my RSS reader.

Is there a way - using even a script or something - to mass follow people? Mass follow seems wrong but basically I’d like to be able to import a whole list of people instead following them one by one.

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There’s not a good way to do that right now. I do plan to add importing from Mastodon’s following export file, though, which will make it easier to move people from Mastodon to Micro.blog. It would also be possible to write a script using Micro.blog’s API to follow users if you know their username.

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These are awesome news, thank you for considering it.

Would you be able to pinpoint the time estimate? Rather this month? This quarter? This half of the year?

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Soon. For the Mastodon improvements, I’m working on several things that should roll out within the month, but not sure in which order:

  • Import following data from Mastodon export.
  • Add profile image banners to Mastodon-compatible accounts on Micro.blog.
  • Enable ActivityPub support for all existing users (with opt-out).
  • Shorten @-mentioned usernames to not include domain name when viewed on Mastodon.

I know some of this is off-top but it helped me to write down the in-progress list. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you for your work on this and for providing the list of upgrades.

Within the one-month timeframe, are you also planning to support longer posts on Mastodon–500 character rather than 280?

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I’ve been thinking about keeping a 500-character copy of posts to use when sending cross-posts to Mastodon, but I don’t know when or if that will happen. Need to experiment a little to understand if it’s even a good idea. It seemed like a good idea, but the inconsistency could also make things more confusing than they already are.

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Quick question - when some of this stuff comes out - where I’m gonna see the changelog or announcement? I want to track myself when I’m gonna be able to import followers instead of checking this thread every couple days:)

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I’ve been posting changes to news.micro.blog. Currently, if you follow @news it only includes the “most important” highlights from changes, but I’m thinking about changing that to include everything so it’s easier to stay up to date.

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Just as an archive: Support import from Mastodon - #5 by manton

Done, thank you!