desertstar84, 4 months ago

I've only done this once, and while it may be a slight inconvenience, switching Mastodon instances should be easy, without you having to do all the work of regaining your followers and friends on your end. There's really absolutely no need to send a bunch of private messages to all of your friends to let them know you're switching accounts. If you do it right, your followers will follow you there automatically once you've imported your account. Personally, I'm not the biggest social media person and I'm happy at the instance I am, so I don't really see a need to move, but for those switching instances, your followers will be notified once you start following them on the new account. That's another less important reason why I choose not to switch. every time someone has switched, I get that notification, and I don't want to do the MastoHop from one instance to another, with my followers getting notifications for each time I've moved, and I'm sure that would get old after a while. Thing is, pick a place that makes you happy and stay in that place. Get used to it. Get comfortable. Slip under the covers and break in that new home for a while before making a hasty decision to move again unless absolutely necessary. Let your mastodon server take care of bringing your followers to you. Think of it as telling the post office you've switched addresses, and give them the new one. They'll just start forwarding your mail directly to you. It's really as easy as that. There's really no need to keep sending DMs for a person to follow you on a new instance because that can also get very old, especially when it's not necessary. Those are just my thoughts. I hope everyone is having a beautiful day! Hugs.