Changer d’instance

Vous avez acquis assez d’expérience sur le Fédivers, mais n’êtes plus en accord avec l’instance sur laquelle vous-êtes ?

Peut-être vous n’aimez pas le logiciel et souhaiter migrer, par exemple de Mastodon à Pixelfed, ou vous jugez la modération trop laxiste ce qui vous amène à voir des publications qui vous mettent mal à l’aise.

Alors il est peut-être temps de déménager votre compte vers une instance différente.

La bonne nouvelle : changer d’instance Mastodon (et ses branches) peut se faire (pratiquement) sans perdre de contacts.

La mauvaise : Il n’y a pas d’équivalent pour le reste du Fédivers ; en changeant d’instance Mastodon vous perdrez vos publications.

Changer d’instance Mastodon

1. Choose your destination server; How to choose an instance may help.
2. Create the new account you want to move to if you didn't already. It doesn't have to be a new account.
3. Log in to the account you want to move TO and go to Settings > Account > Moving from a different account.
4. There enter the handle (@profilename@instance.whatever) of the account you want to move FROM.
5. Now login with the account you want to move FROM and go to Settings > Account > Move to a different account.
6. There enter the handle and password of the account you want to move TO and hit “Move Followers”.
7. Wait for the followers to be moved and you're done.

To keep your "follows" as well as your followers, see https://codingitwrong.com/2022/10/10/migrating-a-mastodon-account.html.

Some facts:

• The account you moved from will not be deleted but just deactivated and it will redirect to your new account. You can reactivate the account later on, but the followers will be gone (moved to the other account).
• You can merge two or more accounts by moving from one to another or by moving both/all to a new one.
• *Some followers from non-Mastodon instances won't move.

Moving from or to a non-Mastodon instance

Tip: Think hard if you really want to move or just create a second account.

These are just suggestions:

1. Post on your old account that you will move to prepare your followers.
2. Create the new account.
3. Rename your old account to “profilename [old]“, “profilename [moved]” or similar.
4. Create a post on your old account informing your followers that you moved. Display the handle of the new account prominently in that post and pin the post to your profile.
5. Also put that message in the profile description of your old account.
6. With your new account write an #introduction post and include some hashtags you used before.
7. Wait a few weeks for your old followers to follow you again. In that time you can repeat point 4 one or two times.
8. Go through your followers lists and manually inform the ones who didn't follow you again.
9. Repost some of your better posts to your new profile. You can do so so using the hashtag #RecycledToot.