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.Ss Migrating from snac to Mastodon
Since version 2.60, you can migrate your
.Nm
account to other ActivityPub instances. I will describe the process to do it from
account to other ActivityPub instances. What is described here is the process to do it from
.Nm
to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be very different. All
to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be somewhat different. All
the steps regarding your
.Nm
account must be done from the command line. For the sake of the example, let's
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.Vt Create an account alias
and follow the instructions. (When it asks you to
write your old accounts handle, it needs to include the @ at the start
as well as the @ in the middle, in our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
According to the link above, you must wait at least five minutes for
this to be effective.
as well as the @ in the middle; as of our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
It seems this step is not performed immediately, you must wait an unspecified
number of minutes for this to be effective.
.Pp
4. Meanwhile, you must tell
.Nm
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to start the migration process, that will consist in iterating all the
people that follows your account and sending them a
.Vt Move
message, notifying all of them that they must unfollow your old account
message, that acts as a suggestion to unfollow your old account
and follow the new one. The command is
.Bd -literal -offset indent
snac migrate $SNAC_BASEDIR origin
.Ed
.Pp
This process can be very long and unreliable. I recommend you to read
the document I linked above to know how heartbreaking it can be.
This process can be very long and unreliable; any destination server may be down,
too busy, disconnected or gone. I recommend you to read the document I linked
above to know about all the sorrows awaiting.
.Ss Migrating from Mastodon to snac
User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass
that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is