17 replies

1. Ben Myers 🦖 2 min later

   @zachleat I got a notification that you were following. me from this new account, but since I was already following this one, I didn't get any such invitations to follow.

2. Coby 5 min later

   @zachleat no notification here. Is your new follower list the same?

3. Will Martin 10 min later

   @zachleat Nothing yet, but I will reply back if/when I see something

   1. Will Martin 11 min later

      @zachleat oh actually, I wonder if I will see anything since I just manually followed you

4. Ondřej Pokorný 17 min later

   @zachleat There's no notification about the move happening for your followers. They are just transparently moved from the old account to your new one. (If their software supports it.)

   1. Zach Leatherman 19 min later

      @ondra I like that although this reported differently https://aaronparecki.com/2022/11/05/28/

      1. Ondřej Pokorný 39 min later

         @zachleat Yep, people you were following will get notified of a new follower but people following you will simply follow the new account instead of the old one.

         1. Zach Leatherman 44 min later

            @ondra a ha! Thank you for the clarification!

            1. patak 52 min later

               @zachleat @ondra for some reason, I got a following from your new account but I had to re-follow you manually (no notification appeared) and I manually unfollowed your old account at mastodon.social. Maybe it had to do with mas.to moving servers today, which was done at the same time.

               1. patak 55 min later

                  @zachleat @ondra eager to see some data later about how a personal instance works for you. Cost, maintenance, DX when following, boosting others. I wonder if Mastodon works better if everyone ends up with a custom instance or what is the ideal state for the network... tons of 100-member instances? There must be some experiments already out there

                  1. Ondřej Pokorný 3 hr later

                     @patak Mastodon itself is definitely not optimized for single-user experience. (Local timeline are just your posts, you don't see most of the discussion under posts unless you follow the participants etc.)
                     Personally, I'm eyeing a solution integrating a personal website with ActivityPub similar to the link to @aaronpk's site above... @zachleat

5. Chris Enns 36 min later

   @zachleat I got notification that you followed me from this account?

6. Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) 52 min later

   @zachleat Hmm, it seems I have to manually follow you again here. OK of course! ☺️

7. Peter Janes 1 hr later

   @zachleat I didn't receive a notification of the change, but I see I'm now following both of your accounts.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @me well that’s good news, I think? the mastodon.social one should just be a redirect now

      1. Peter Janes 2 hr later

         @zachleat Yeah, it makes sense, although I might have expected the original to be unfollowed (a good web citizen wouldn't continue polling an obsolete resource). Probably a cleanup feature that could be implemented.

         1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

            @me I don’t think all of the steps have completed on this yet, unfortunately.