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.Ss Migrating from snac to Mastodon
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Since version 2.60, you can migrate your
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.Nm
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-account to other ActivityPub instances. I will describe the process to do it from
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+account to other ActivityPub instances. What is described here is the process to do it from
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.Nm
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-to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be very different. All
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+to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be somewhat different. All
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the steps regarding your
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.Nm
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account must be done from the command line. For the sake of the example, let's
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@@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ then click on
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.Vt Create an account alias
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and follow the instructions. (When it asks you to
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write your old account’s handle, it needs to include the @ at the start
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-as well as the @ in the middle, in our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
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-According to the link above, you must wait at least five minutes for
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-this to be effective.
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+as well as the @ in the middle; as of our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
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+It seems this step is not performed immediately, you must wait an unspecified
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+number of minutes for this to be effective.
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.Pp
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4. Meanwhile, you must tell
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.Nm
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@@ -447,14 +447,15 @@ snac alias $SNAC_BASEDIR origin "@destination@mastodon.example.com"
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to start the migration process, that will consist in iterating all the
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people that follows your account and sending them a
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.Vt Move
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-message, notifying all of them that they must unfollow your old account
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+message, that acts as a suggestion to unfollow your old account
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and follow the new one. The command is
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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snac migrate $SNAC_BASEDIR origin
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.Ed
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.Pp
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-This process can be very long and unreliable. I recommend you to read
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-the document I linked above to know how heartbreaking it can be.
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+This process can be very long and unreliable; any destination server may be down,
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+too busy, disconnected or gone. I recommend you to read the document I linked
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+above to know about all the sorrows awaiting.
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.Ss Migrating from Mastodon to snac
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User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass
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that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is
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