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How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

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OSIRIS 🎸 💻 🎙️

@Gargron Is there a future where migration includes posts as well? I think that's a big thing for people...

(I know the posts are still at the original account, but that's not quite the same)

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FallCheetah7373

@Gargron I just did the same!

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Bret Mogilefsky

@Gargron I have yet to hear what one does if the old server is compromised/unavailable. Is there an answer?

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Zaphod van ::1 🇺🇦

@Gargron
I have this question for a long time. I decide to go back to the old server, can I move the followers again and how?

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dagmar

@Gargron I’m sure most people on here know the game much better than I, so please excuse the stupid Twitter head question: why would I want to move servers? What does that even mean? #stilllearning

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@Gargron Thanks for the useful info!

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papachan 🚴‍♂️

@Gargron and if we dont want to migrate just keep a reference to the main account? I read something about alias.

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RiderExMachina

@Gargron
Does this work if the new server has been defederated from the old server?

Asking for a Twitter conversation

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Zaphod van ::1 🇺🇦

@Gargron
I have this question for a while now. If I decide to go back to the old server, can I move the followers again and how?

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Antony Sheehan

@Gargron what if you want to go back to the first one.

This one looks different . Do they all look different?

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Lukas

@Gargron are there any future plans to migrate the content too?

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Scarlet Diva

@Gargron
Useful to know. Thanks!

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Antony Sheehan

@Gargron

Can you go back ?

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Professor_Nostalgia

@Gargron if you want to bring a profile to another server where you are already resident, how do you do that?

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Richard Grant

@Gargron @Gazpics76 If one has a distinct set of follows and followers on *each* of these 2 servers, and uses this procedure to consolidate onto a single one of them — does the data on the destination server get overwritten by the newly transferred data from the “old” server?

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Carolina

@Gargron gracias Irene y Eugen

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Jan Kaluza

@Gargron Do my followeds transfer automatically, or do I have to export them from the old and reimport them in the new one manually?

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Leah Eustace

@Gargron I just did it after realizing my first name was available as a handle (say what? Yay!). I’d defaulted to my full name because my first name is never available. It was very easy to migrate.

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Nicolas Pettiaux

@Gargron thanks. What about the history of the exchanges ?

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StuartB

@Gargron
Does the old account still exist when you do this, or is it removed?

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