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That is true, yes. But then there's the fact that my identity is tied to that instance. All of my followers would have to go through the trouble of refollowing
by tuukkao 6y ago
That is true, yes. But then there's the fact that my identity is tied to that instance. All of my followers would have to go through the trouble of refollowing me on another instance, and that is only if I'm able to tell them that the instance I'm currently on is about to go bye-bye.
- grishka 6y agoIIRC you can move your account across instances and keep your followers, but the likelihood of that working successfully depends on the software running on your followers' instances.
- jlkuester7 6y agoFor awhile now, the Mastodon account migration process has supported automatically updating your followers to point to your new account: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration
- tuukkao 6y agoI stand corrected. I'd still rather have my own personal handle that I could point to any given Mastodon account (kind of like how email aliases work) but it's absolutely better than nothing.