@feditips Good point. One of the huge advantages of mastodon and the fediverse is decentralization. If everybody would join mastodon.social this advantage is gone. That's the reason I moved my account from mastodon.social to a smaller instance.

Very easy to do. Here is a good, offical blogpost how to do it: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-one-server-to-another/