Hey people who have ever moved their Mastodon accounts to a different server, I need to ask you something:
When you moved, did you get a flood of email notifications about your followers transferring to the new Mastodon server?
If you did get a flood of emails, how recently did you move your account?
EDIT: Also it would help to know if you had email notifications about new followers switched on or off (more info at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-stop-receiving-email-notifications-from-mastodon/)
#AskFedi
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I migrated about a month and a half ago, and did not get email notifications about followers during the migration.
I do have email notifications active for new followers.
What is disabled for me is the setting 'Always send e-mail notifications', which has the explanation 'Normally e-mail notifications won't be sent when you are actively using Mastodon'.
Since I use the site virtually every single day, that might be a factor.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services When I moved in September I had email notification turned off at both ends of the move and received none. I did receive notifications within Mastodon.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Good q. I don't remember exactly anymore so it could well be that I reviewed my notification settings here much before I moved the other account here. A clue is that I don't get mails for follow requests here, so I might have turned them off before migration.
When migrating yes I got the follow requests in the notification timeline, but not via mail.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I have moved my account a few times (due to servers shutting down). I have my email notifications set to OFF and have never gotten a follower transfer email.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
July 2024, with emails re: new followers Off
= no emails.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I migrated last month. No, I didn't get a flood of emails but I do get email every time someone new follows me
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services The first time I moved, I got a flood of emails. The second time I moved, I made sure to disable email notifications before uploading my followers CSV file.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I've moved accounts twice, and didn't get a notification flood from either of them. Keep in mind that I'm pretty sure I had notifications off, or at least I think so, I hadn't gotten notifications any other time.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
i did not. and i had those notifications off.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I did not get a flood of emails, moving from mastodon.social to fosstodon.org, in Jan 2025
@kamikat@dmv.community
Thanks for the info, that is very interesting.
So, you had the email notifications switched on for your new account, but it didn't send you notifications when you moved your followers?
@kamikat@dmv.community
Thanks for the info, that is very interesting.
So, you had the email notifications switched on for your new account, but it didn't send you notifications when you moved your followers?
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