So, knowing many of my #Fediverse friends are using services other than #Mastodon, what will happen to those followers if I move Mastodon instance and initiate the migration and redirect?
Will they follow my new account? I suspect not. But why? Everyone has known for years the ideal is to build in portability — that beyond being a nice-to-have, it's actually more of a necessity to make this big project a success. Other ideas are rigorously implemented and fiercely defended. Why not this one?
@tokyo_0 if I understood you correctly, my understanding is that followers will continue to follow you on a new instance but your old posts will be gone. I've never migrated so this isn't first hand experience.
@moftasa That is the case on #Mastodon, and for followers who are also using Mastodon (I've moved a couple of times and it does definitely work). The content is lost, as you say, which is why I built #MastodonContentMover.
But even if I move from one Mastodon instance to another Mastodon instance, and all my Mastodon followers move with me and follow me on my new instance, I think right now any followers who don't use Mastodon (instead using other #Fediverse services) would be left behind.
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