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by akvadrako 530 days ago
It's a better situation than Mastadon because you can keep your handle. On Mastadon when you change servers you get a new handle since they are tied together.
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Yes and no. If you follow the Mastodon migration process, your old handle(s) forward to your new one(s).

What you lose (at least last I checked) are action notifications based on your forwarded handle(s). This mostly doesn't matter, though in my case I have one mildly-viral toot which occasionally gets rediscovered. Missing out on the notifications storm there is mostly feature rather than bug.

For the curious: <https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102376653178100454>