Fedi.TipsMay 25, 2024

You can transfer your Mastodon account to another Mastodon server if you want to. There are complete step-by-step instructions here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

Transferring your account lets you take your followers, follows, bookmarks, lists, mutes and blocks along with you to the new server. Your existing followers will automatically follow your new account.

Your old posts will remain on the old server, but they will redirect people to your new account.

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Show threaddomenpk
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This makes me feel a bit uneasy.
I know as an attacker you'd need correct credentials for it, but if you have them you could steal followers and there's no recourse (the new server just won't cooperate to transfer them back).
I'd hope such account actions trigger more authentication.
Disclaimer: I've only read the linked page and not spent much time looking into this.
@briankrebs
May 26, 2024 at 1:35pmWeb
Show threadFedi.TipsMay 26, 2024

@domenpk @briankrebs

They would need to have access to your account to do this.

You can secure your account even more by using a good unique password and activating two-factor authentication:

https://fedi.tips/using-two-factor-authentication-2fa-on-mastodon/

Even if they had your password, they wouldn't be able to access your account as the 2FA would stop them.

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