I tried to switch to another "instance" to see what it was like. Alas, none of my follows or followers were migrated over, and Mastodon says my "backup" of my old account to import was corrupted. Hoping it will just take a while to migrate over but starting to think I'm going to be starting from scratch as the new Instance is pretty sure I'm only following one person.
@StephanieCarvin Interesting. I wonder if that's an artifact of the servers being overloaded, or if it's a genuine bug.
@LastSaskPirate I find a lot of things get better after 24 hours
@StephanieCarvin happy to follow you to the new instance, just share the handle or whatever that is called here
@StephanieCarvin Inalready follow you on that one, so it seems the migration was fine

@StephanieCarvin

Have you seen this article? It explains how to move followers over when switching instances and much more.

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/#why-are-hashtags-so-important

Notes from a data witch - Everything I know about Mastodon

A hastily written guide for data science folks trying to navigate the fediverse.