Anil DashOkay, here's a remarkable thing about the fediverse: I was able to seamlessly move my followers to a new server, and the vast majority of them *never even noticed* that it happened. About 24 hours ago, I decided to move from mastodon[dot]cloud (because it had been bought up by sketchy new owners), and I came to @medium's new me.dm instance. At that time, I had 25,829 followers, and now less than 24 hrs later, I have 22,648 followers on this new account — without them having to do anything.
The entire migration process took me a couple of minutes (basically, you just tell your new account that you want to migrate from your old one, then tell your old account where you're going). Now, I think this may be one of the largest follower migrations in fediverse history, so there was a little bit of weirdness in some apps and the website in terms of getting a *ton* of notifications (tens of thousands of follows) but after that settled, it was smooth sailing. And invisible to followers.
Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️The one thing I have had to update for you and others who have migrated is to re-add you to the custom lists I've set up.
@funcrunch oh that's good to know! I hadn't realized it would break those features.
Aswath Rao@anildash @funcrunch If we allow "bring your own acct URI", then many of these issues would go away. We fought so hard for number portability in PSTN, but now we just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I am not sure whether it is possible to migrate from Mastodon to Pleroma.
Of course nobody talks about loss of posts and that also can be fixed.
Of course nobody talks about loss of posts and that also can be fixed.
Chris Ainsworth@funcrunch @anildash ahh, good to know, I had no idea that migration lost placement on a list. That might get cumbersome if folks start hopping around.