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If you want to transfer your Mastodon account to a different Mastodon server, there's a step-by-step non-technical guide at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
There are a lot of steps, but each step is hopefully clear and easy to understand.
The guide also answers many questions people have about transferring their account. (If I've missed something please let me know!)
@FediTips thanks for your support. Do you have any source about how Mastodon works at all, how to interact with others, how to work with groups etc? Not from a tech point of view but more kind of "How to move to M when used to Facebook for years". I don't even understand why I would want to change a Mastodon Server.
There are many other guides to help new people listed on the front page of the website at https://fedi.tips
The basics are listed at the top of the page in the section marked "quick start" and the complete list of guides is below this. All of these are for a general non-technical audience 🙂
About groups: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse
About why you would want to change server, there is a section about this in the transfer guide linked in the original post.
To be clear, you can't transfer your posts if you move to another account. I've learned this the sad way.
If you follow the steps in the transfer guide above, the posts remain in existence on the old server and redirect people to your new account.
Great info. But I'm so happy with my server. They are the best. 3rd time is the charm 🍀
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes. This is not a production site. There are no backups for now. Data, including profiles may be wiped without notice. No service or other guarantees expressed or implied.
