@imabuddha You changed servers, right? My app doesn’t show any posts before now (before I followed you here) from another server, though I’m sure I can see them some other way.
@short The missing posts are really the only issue.
Transferring followers is automated by the move, so it's easy.
Exporting & importing the lists is simple too.
The biggest PITA is editing your profile & adjusting all of the settings.
@imabuddha Hmm.. But I had to re-follow. At least I thought I did. When I got the notification of your “new” follow, it showed you with zero followers and indicated that I wasn’t following. Maybe it would’ve kicked in automatically if I had waited a little longer?
@short Well, I think what happened is that when I set up this new account I imported my following list before moving my followers from the old account.
I'm still very new at all of this so I might be mistaken. Perhaps doing the follower move then importing followers wouldn't be as confusing.
@short Here are the instructions I followed:
https://codingitwrong.com/2022/10/10/migrating-a-mastodon-account.html
@imabuddha Too bad about the posts and all. More than that, would be nice if you could easily transfer your followers. But you did it early enough in, I guess. And you gave some good reasons. I think I’ll stay put for a little longer, but other grass sounds like it’s greener.