Given how easy it is to move to a different Mastodon instance, it will be interesting to see in the coming months to see how many new folks will live in the "big cities", how many will move to small towns, and how many will start their own homesteads. #fediverse
@kyle I moved from a regional ("sfba") instance to a more tech-oriented instance with rules, blocklist, and "Local" that I liked better, and found the move _much_ harder than it should have been.
Step 1: add alias to old instance on new instance. Easy-peasy.
Step 2: tell old instance I'm moving (which should auto-move all my following and followers?): Just plain did not work, and error was something opaque about needing an alias.
Basically did it manually and just added the "redirect".
@freiheit Interesting, how long ago was that?
@kyle I suspect that there's a cacheing issue somewhere in there...
@kyle About 20 hours ago