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.
Andy Piper@andypiper @medium Yeah, I had a fair number of folks do that, and I also screwed up by not having my profile pic/verification set up first, so a lot of people asked if it was a phishing/impersonation account.