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you can export all of your account data, and you can host mastrodon on a raspberry pie, what are you talking about

> you can export all of your account data

And then what? Write a script that systematically re-posts it all on your new account?

> and you can host mastrodon on a raspberry pie, what are you talking about

The amount of time and dedication required to do such a thing is not just outside of the ability of most people, but it is also not worth the effort for such a trivial thing as tweets.

But you can't yet import that data in your new instance and have it seamlessly continue to work from there, because your identifier obviously changed.

Moving accounts is supported; your old account posts a machine-readable "moved to x@y" message, which tells your followers to automatically switch to the new location.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Oh cool, missed that being added. That covers a good chunk of the issue.

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