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by lokedhs 1277 days ago
No. The domain part is the instance. When you migrate, your old account is set to point to the new one, and a notification is automatically sent to your followers so they can automatically follow you on the new instance.
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Thanks.

That's too bad, really. If your instance admin blocks you because of some spat, the functioning of the migration mechanism seems to be depending on his goodwill, right?

With email, no old mail provider can stop me from being reachable under my mail address in the future.