OK, so, I guess "federated" doesn't actually mean "can easily move my account from one instance to another" yet? :( https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
@esnyder What I did was go into my account settings and "export follows to csv", then imported them on the new instance. Was totally painless.
@Falkreon so, as a one time thing that's part of it. But with no way to bring your followERs, and conversational history... doesn't feel like an actual solution.