Fediverse Q: when migrating accounts, can you also merge them?
Masto migration question for someone else:
"I'm doing something of a forced condensation due to certain instances dying, but when I tried to migrate them all to the new place, only one of them transferred their followers. The other two did not. It's been a good few hours, is it really just this slow for some instances, or did I screw up and actually I could only migrate one account to one account?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1ms2bg8/if_i_were_to_migrate_three_old_accounts_all_to/
I have never done this. Have any of you?
Fediverse Q: when migrating accounts, can you also merge them?
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
I wonder if the 30 day limit between migrations applies here? (IDK though, I've never migrated.)
I'm sure @FediTips@social.growyourown.services can shed some light. 😎
Fediverse Q: when migrating accounts, can you also merge them?
@5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
Yes, you can merge accounts. You can migrate any account into any other account, which is effectively the same thing as merging them.
The 30 day limit only applies in transferring followers off an account to another account, you have to wait 30 days between attempts.
Fediverse Q: when migrating accounts, can you also merge them?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
So, is that why only one of the accounts transferred followers? 🤔
@5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf
One of which accounts?
If you're transferring from one account to another, the followers from one account go to the other.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Sorry, read the full question in the post above the one where i first tagged you. (The post by @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe )
@5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
Ahh okay!
Yeah, try migrating just one account at a time. Once one has migrated, migrate the other account to it as well.
The migration process involves setting up an alias and it can only point to one alternative account at a time. That's probably why only one set of followers transferred.
(The reason for aliases is to stop spammers etc cloning followers onto multiple accounts that people never followed.)
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf thanks!
Sally Strange
Sci-Fi Girl