[allenbrunson]

> As far as I know, migrating servers is in fact very easy. I haven’t done it myself, but there’s a big button to click in the interface to do so.

i have, in fact, tried pressing that button. the experience is pretty terrible.

i made a backup of my original account's data, as suggested. went through all the steps. despite that, i lost all my posts, and all the accounts i was following that did not also follow me back. and that information did not exist in the backup i made.

(i am not arguing against mastodon, by the way! i am still a happy user. but it has a lot of warts.)

this is making me think that my contribution to the fediverse might be to write a tool that does a real migration, the way you would expect it to be done.

[jdlshore]

Good to know! Thanks for sharing your experience.