@Gargron how long does it take for the migration?

@Gargron I would like to initiate a Swedish platform for art. Any suggestions? Platform or just an account?

@Gargron one point seems to confuse new comers; Attempting to see profiles of users from other instances could lead to no posts although posts count show a number. What is the possibility mastodon instance would implement a sequence to fetch posts from remote instance, if it doesn't have any posts to show when the profile stats assert posts exist?

@Gargron What happens if, after the migration, someone follows my old account; will they automatically be forwarded to my new account? 🙏🏼

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Hi, I've forgotten my Mastodon password but the lost password option isn't sending reset emails. How do I go about this?

Thanks.

@Gargron guardando en lugar seguro 😅

@Gargron Very much a noob, but I successfully completed this in mere minutes a few days ago!

@Gargron what's the deal with different servers?

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@Gargron just getting one set up right now hopefully not going to have to move it anywhere.

@Gargron what if a server shuts down? Will all posts on there be lost forever?

@Gargron I use different accounts on different servers. In many apps, likte Metatext, it's easy to switch between them.

@Gargron @tres :3

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@Gargron hey @RealDaveEdwards, this gives the transfer process

@Gargron many thanks . . why would you want to move once you on a server and up and running ?

@Gargron Thank you.

@Gargron Thanks. This made the move easy.

@Gargron One important detail that I discovered: Step 2 needs to be performed on BOTH servers. Each server needs have an alias pointing to the other one for the functionality to work.
This is poorly described in the UI.

Then you need to wait an unspecified amount of time (I needed to way a full day) for the two servers to synchronize your profile data and be aware of each other.

THEN you can do the "Move to another account" step.

@Gargron Export any data you want first though!