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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by s73v3r_ on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:45PM (#17790559)
How do my followers know to follow me to the new instance? How do they know it’s actually me?
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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by boyce on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:51PM (#17790602)
You can mark an account as having moved and specify to where.
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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by s73v3r_ on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:11PM (#17790728)
Not reliably, and unless your followers are watching for it, they might miss it.
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