Hacker News Reader

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.

View on HN

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.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com