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@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ around the world. .It Bio Enter here a bunch of self-indulgent blurb about yourself. The same markup options available for text notes apply here. +.It Email address for notifications +If this field is not empty, an email message will be sent +to this address whenever a post written by you is liked, +boosted or replied to. .It Password Write the same string in these two fields to change your password. Don't write anything if you don't want to do this. @@ -171,6 +175,10 @@ argument is - (a lonely hyphen), the external editor defined by the EDITOR environment variable will be invoked to prepare a message. .El +.Ss Migrating from Mastodon +See +.Xr snac 8 +for details. .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ev DEBUG @@ -188,6 +196,6 @@ The user-preferred interactive text editor to prepare messages. .Sh LICENSE See the LICENSE file for details. .Sh CAVEATS -Use the Fediverse sparingly. Don't fear the mute button. +Use the Fediverse sparingly. Don't fear the MUTE button. .Sh BUGS Plenty. Some issues may be documented in the TODO.md file. @@ -218,6 +218,20 @@ is supported. Intentionally, the and .Pa /following paths return empty lists. +.Ss Migrating from Mastodon +User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass +that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is +not much that can be done, other than importing the list of people you +follow to your new +.Nm +account. +.Pp +To do this, download the user's list of accounts being followed (in CSV +format) from the Mastodon web interface and execute this: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +awk -F, 'NR > 1 { print $1 }' /path/to/following_accounts.csv | \\ +xargs -n 1 snac follow $SNAC_BASEDIR $SNAC_USER +.Ed .Ss Other Considerations .Nm stores all the messages it receives as JSON files, which are usually |