Have you heard of W Social?

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@BrennpunktUA @jetsoft @karlos
The "web app" thing is a good tip!
Does that work with any browser? I currently use Ecosia

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 it at least should! Others use it with the Ecosia browser (which is based on Chromium), too. Let me know :)

@jetsoft @karlos

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@jens @kallekn @doktorzjivago @dalcacer This is well put, and I'm screenshotting this ... thanks! 💜

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social they were just two, both from 2023, right?

My guess is that eupolicy.social is a rather small instance (right?) and rather conservative in fetching content from the fediverse. There are so called "relays" (I'm not a pro, too, but for what understood it means that servers can choose certain other servers to help them fetching more content, a little bit like humans helping each other out), your server might need (more of) them.

@hpod16 @ekari

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social try entering:

mastodon.social/@hpod16/111557014740315275

and

mastodon.social/@hpod16/111415714863381489

(as a whole) in the search field, this should force fetching those old posts.

Or open your old profile in a private browser tab (to make sure you're logged out).

Yeah, I know, the fediverse has some downsides, too. But that's the price of federation, I guess.

@hpod16 @ekari

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social I now also tried mentioning you as a reply to these old posts. Maybe one of those tests already forced fetching to your new server?

@hpod16 @ekari

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@BrennpunktUA @hpod16@mastodon.social @ekari
Thanks for troubleshooting with me here!
none of that seems to work though, I'm not sure what I'm not getting.
I'm not desperate to get my old posts back, but I want to be able to explain this to colleagues when they encounter similar problems. I'll get there!

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@BrennpunktUA @hpod16@mastodon.social @ekari
Awww, I used to post a lot about Johan. Glad to report he's free now, and that his wedding last year was one hell of a party 😆 💜

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social you see your old posts now?

@hpod16 @ekari

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@BrennpunktUA @hpod16@mastodon.social @ekari
I can see them, but as soon as I go to Mastodon.social, I'm no longer logged into my current server
It's just prompting me to log into mastodon.social

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 my fault, you need to add "https://"

Try now :)

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 and yeah, that's not user friendly. But it normally happens only on rare occasions. More often for small instances (unfortunately) than for bigger ones.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@BrennpunktUA A million thanks!

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social try the search for URL-method in your current instance.

@hpod16 @ekari

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@BrennpunktUA @hpod16@mastodon.social @ekari
It worked, thanks a ton!

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 🤝💜

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social 👍

@hpod16 @ekari

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 to be honest, I remember similar flaws (couldn't find or see some old tweets) on Twitter, even without federation.

[kjuh@troet.cafe]

@hpod16 Public money, public code! Mastodon (like other fediverse software) is open source. If anything I would want open (or preferably free) systems to be funded by my taxes! First priority IMHO _must_ be for officials and official institutions to accept and treat the fediverse as a sovereign and thus preferable way to communicate publicly. They could easily host their own instances for those purposes, without too much cost IMHO. @dalcacer

[dalcacer@mas.to]

@kjuh to be fair, the European Commission is hosting their own instance at https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about