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You can't import your posts, but they will still exist at your old account: if I move from foo@social.example to bar@social.example, then all the posts I made a
by andolanra 6y ago
You can't import your posts, but they will still exist at your old account: if I move from foo@social.example to bar@social.example, then all the posts I made as @foo are still visible on @foo's timeline, rather than getting moved to @bar. (You would have two copies of all your posts otherwise, since people can still fav/boost/interact with the post made when you were still @foo.) Moving accounts will redirect your followers to the new account, and you can import all your old follows/likes/&c to the new account.
- WorldMaker 6y agoAlso, you can still export your own posts to preserve them. You could even use that to reimport them (just as said without the ability to migrate faves/boosts/replies/other interactions). The email analogy isn't always great with ActivityPub federation, but it's still a useful analogy as email is our most common federated service, and here ActivityPub migration is no worse than email address migration, and certainly at this point in some ways already better (follower migration is something email could have used; updating your email contacts list is still a very manual process).