I migrated servers last week and boy did I develop some strong opinions about migration and the as-yet only semi-fulfilled promise of account portability.

If you're thinking about moving instances—or you'd like to know yet more about my dreams for better networks—here's a post you might want to read:

https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration

@kissane I realized when I moved instances, that the other server I was using wasn't found by this instance, despite having already followed people from the other instance, so I had to manually refollow everyone I wanted to keep up with, some of them refollowed, some have not.