PEOPLE, IT'S ME, and I'm moving from Mastodon.social to Mstdn.social.

I'm real, it's not a fake account.

I've been publicly talking about a move for a long time.

2/ I'll prove it's me: UPDATED!

WompWomp

Mr. HairDryer

Toodles

WhackATroll

HA!

@GottaLaff do e! have followed you on mstdn.social thanks!
@GottaLaff Wasn't there a verify feature with Mastodon?

@GottaLaff Yeah just checked it again, it still exists. You basically put a link to your profile onto a website that you control, and put the URL of that website onto one of the extra fields in your profile (see mine, called 'Verify' in this case).

If the website you linked has the profile link in it, the verification is valid.

@GottaLaff Why did you decide to move?
@ujeenator Awhile ago, but it took me ages to really decide
@ujeenator Too many bots and fakes on mastodon.social
@GottaLaff interesting, however, since Fediverse instances are interconnected, what’s stopping them from continuing to bother you on mstdn.social? Are you planning to ban any users who try to interact from mastodon.social?

@ujeenator @GottaLaff

I don't know the nuts and bolts, but I'm on another instance moderated by @stux who administers mstdn.social and he does pretty well filtering out such.

@GottaLaff Quick, say something only Laffy would say!
@catsalad Womp Womp!

@GottaLaff @catsalad When I saw you say "It's me", I thought "yeah, but that's exactly what a Laffy impersonator would say".

But the Womping has convinced me. Welcome to your new server!

Oh, and I don't know how much transferred automatically and how much didn't, but I'm still following you without my having to do anything, so that's a least one thing that worked.

@statsguy @catsalad You’re right, I should have announced too, but I had no idea how it worked, and suddenly I got an onslaught of replies. I was totally overwhelmed.

We’re mutualsπŸ‘πŸΌ

@GottaLaff good luck on the move! I started here, and hope @stux outlives me.😍

@GottaLaff
Brought this for the housewarming: 🍾

Hope you enjoy your new home!

@GottaLaff Whew! Thanks for clarifying. I figured it was you, but these days...
@GottaLaff
Hi! 😊 Good to see you here, as well as there.
@GottaLaff are you still blocking people who reference the Palestinian genocide?
@weyoun6 I never did that. I blocked those who said Genocide Joe or something similar.
@GottaLaff People who said Biden was complicit in the genocide?

@GottaLaff Oh sure, that's just what a fake account would say! πŸ˜‚

Good for you! I'll watch to see how the auto-move of your followers goes, and if it doesn't take me over I will just follow again manually.

I need to move too, but am hoping to find a smaller boutique home at some point.

@GottaLaff thank you for the heads-up. I also wasn't aware when joining that being on mastodon.social is essentially "fediverse leprosy." I'm accustomed to being a loner, though. πŸ˜†
@GottaLaff now I’m curious…should I relocate??? I emailed so perhaps let me know there 😁
@GottaLaff Thanks for (re)finding me again! It certainly isn’t as smooth and painless to migrate as it could be. I still think I lost some when I moved from the .lol instance. If I used Mastodon more, I might consider trying to migrate to mstdn.social myself. Maybe I will, with the way things are going. I never bothered with Bluesky. Glad to know @stux is a potential help for you! πŸ™‚

@NeoRenfield @stux I lost 126 and don't really care.

I DO care about my lists.

@GottaLaff Followed! Hope the move is going well.
@charvaka Omg, the onslaught of mentions! I'm barely keeping up. I'm NOT keeping up.
@GottaLaff I was wondering what happened.

@GottaLaff

Laffy’s REAL β€œBig Move!”

@GottaLaff @stux hmmm. Your new account is following me but I wasn’t following your new account. So problems show up in both directions. I now follow mstdn.
@paulc Okay good. I'm so lost right now. @stux

@GottaLaff

Bonus points for the "Yes I'm Moving!" note on your old profile. Saved me from bothering you with a "Is this real?" #1,143,054 query. 😊

(Which I've kind of voided with this reply, but ah well πŸ˜‰)

@GottaLaff
Yeah, because I've never seen a scammer or a clone insist that they're the original copy. Sounds totally legit to me.

/teasing