Well that whole straightforward move process was not straightforward at all and just meant I lost the 116 followers I build up.
Try and do a "Profile move" and it tells me I need an "alias" setup. Try and create "alias" to the new account and that just results in error (yes I tried lots of times).
So in the end I try a Profile redirect. That works… now I have no followers. FFS
Ok the inability to setup aliases is this bug
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18033
Without an alias setup, you cannot do a move. Thus in the stable version right now, you cannot do a move unless you already had an alias setup from a previous version.
Not entirely clear if I can fix this up after a fix appears in the stable version or if I really am back to square one.
I am sort of slowly accepting the fact that I will take a month or more to build back up to the follower count I picked in 4 days. 😜
It is all working now and all followers are migrated! Thanks @mastohost
I am now following 161 people of the 170. The remaining 9 people are those that need to agree to my new account following me.
@ruari good luck!
Moving in any scenario is never fun. Nor is it easy.
@ruari I tried and gave up completely. It's a mess.
@ruari Well, ONE follower at least...
@smellsofbikes Nice to see you again!🥳
@ruari good idea you boosted. I found you.
@jrsofty Figured it was worth a shot. Glad to see it helped a bit 😉
I also exported the list of people *I* was following and it was 170 people. On importing this to my new account, how many people am I following? Well it ain't 170 I can tell you that. Seriously… this was shit? I will not be suggesting anyone else move. Apparently new users just have to pick their instance correctly the first time… urrgh!