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spartanatreyu@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s worth pointing out that while ActivityPub doesn’t currently support account migration (although there are proposals in the works for how to do this), Mastodon does have a weak form of support right now.

You can create a new account on another mastodon instance, then you’re able to point your old account to your new account.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that. Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?

IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name. I’ll have to find those proposals you mentioned.

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- spartanatreyu@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?
  
  It doesn’t port over any old comments/posts, but I’m pretty sure that when anyone @'s you, it’s forwarded to the new account.
  
  IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name.
  
  Mastodon already does this
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Mastodon already does this
    
    That’s only for showing a domain on your profile. What I meant is using a domain as your username, so if you own example.com and used that as your username people would mention you by writing @example.com. A DNS record delegates the domain to the right server.
    
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