Moving accounts from Mastodon
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Hmmm... so I attempted to utilise Mastodon's account move functionality to send my followers over to this account.
It seems like the process started ok (Mastodon reports the account is now moving and redirecting), but it's been about 20 minutes and I don't think I've gained any new followers, heh.
Is there a delay or perhaps I did something wrong...
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@julian yes, I’ve done this too. Worked well for me when i moved from mastodon.social to flipboard.social. Give it about 12-24 hours to settle.
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Thanks @[email protected]! I was afraid I did something wrong because I actually hacked in the
alsoKnownAs
part into my User actor, but didn't actually federate theUpdate(Person)
to all my followers, only to the Mastodon account to pass the account linking check.Or, you know, a hundred other things that could be going wrong lol.
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Armando :rick:replied to julian last edited by [email protected]
@julian even if everything goes well, expect to lose some portion of your followers. Some are from dead servers but also sometimes the migration just doesn't work.
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@julian Of course, your followers will first have to re-follow you manually in some way.
Mastodon is not Hubzilla or (streams) with all non-nomadic connections off which automagically changes all your contacts' connections when you move your main instance, nor can it force anyone to follow you.
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