Tim Messerschmidt
Migrated my account from mastodon.cloud to mastodon.social (reasons to follow) and here are a few things I learned:
* Migration includes moving your followers
* Your toots will not migrate
* You need to create an alias on your to-be-migrated-to account before being able to migrate from your previous account
* People you are following are not migrated -- you can download a CSV of them, though, and import that list on your new account
Nov 28, 2022 at 4:52pmMastodon for Android
Show threadTim MesserschmidtNov 28, 2022

* Your old account will become inactive (greyed out) and will point to the new account. The app sadly doesn't seem to display this redirect/alias, though.

Now here's why I migrated: mastodon.cloud's API doesn't match mastodon.social (which is maintained by Mastodon's founder). This difference breaks tools like @Tibor's movetodon.org. I also like that it is based out of Europe, so it matches my expectations re data privacy etc.

Show threadManuel *hunting Eudaimonia*Nov 28, 2022

@messerschmidt

Interesting thread a lot I didn't know. Thx!

@Tibor

Show threadLieberoNov 29, 2022
@messerschmidt @Tibor you like it is based out of Europe?
Show threaddemi7en 🎗🇪🇺Nov 29, 2022

@liebero3 @messerschmidt @Tibor

Tim migrated to Mastodon.social which is in Germany and thus covered by European standards on users' rights etc.

The "based out of Europe" did sound a bit confusing to me too. "Based in" FTW! 😜​

Show threadwoopNov 30, 2022
@messerschmidt @Tibor