Updated documentation.

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.It Bio
Enter here a bunch of self-indulgent blurb about yourself.
The same markup options available for text notes apply here.
.It Email address for notifications
If this field is not empty, an email message will be sent
to this address whenever a post written by you is liked,
boosted or replied to.
.It Password
Write the same string in these two fields to change your
password. Don't write anything if you don't want to do this.
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by the EDITOR environment variable will be invoked to prepare
a message.
.El
.Ss Migrating from Mastodon
See
.Xr snac 8
for details.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ev DEBUG
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.Sh LICENSE
See the LICENSE file for details.
.Sh CAVEATS
Use the Fediverse sparingly. Don't fear the mute button.
Use the Fediverse sparingly. Don't fear the MUTE button.
.Sh BUGS
Plenty. Some issues may be documented in the TODO.md file.

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and
.Pa /following
paths return empty lists.
.Ss Migrating from Mastodon
User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass
that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is
not much that can be done, other than importing the list of people you
follow to your new
.Nm
account.
.Pp
To do this, download the user's list of accounts being followed (in CSV
format) from the Mastodon web interface and execute this:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
awk -F, 'NR > 1 { print $1 }' /path/to/following_accounts.csv | \\
xargs -n 1 snac follow $SNAC_BASEDIR $SNAC_USER
.Ed
.Ss Other Considerations
.Nm
stores all the messages it receives as JSON files, which are usually