I would really love if this became an option, since I’m planning on making my own instance. I’d like to keep my subscriptions, posts, comments and bookmarks and migrating would be something great. What do you think?
I would really love if this became an option, since I’m planning on making my own instance. I’d like to keep my subscriptions, posts, comments and bookmarks and migrating would be something great. What do you think?
What about the comments? Is it the same thing?
Yeah. A better way to describe Mastodon “migration” would be to call it account linking, or account forwarding. Each time you make a new account on a different instance you leave behind directions to the current one. Kind of like migrating your email account and leaving the old address to “forward” stuff to the new one.
I agree that it’s a much cleaner system than attempting to actually move content around.
Yeah all content stays behind, so that’s your toots (posts) and replies (comments). I was bit wary of migrating because of that, but just needed to change my outlook a bit and remember all online content is temporary. Tbh since your followers etc all move over with you it’s made no difference at all and I can still log into the old account if I need to admin anything. Works fine!