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   Nick G (ratcatcher@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 03:35:37 JST Nick G

   • Eugen Rochko
   • Squish :ir:

   Well, the bad news is that my migration from neurodifferent.me to this account didn't work at all. Still no word from or about @squish and the server still isn't sending anything to the outside world (which is probably why the migration didn't work). Unfortunately that means that even with the people who have now followed this account, I've lost over two-thirds of my followers.

   I'm not too obsessed with followers. I only had 120-odd and most of my interactions come from the various autistic hashtags and groups. Still, it is annoying.

   The good news is that I've logged in to the old neurodifferent.me account and removed the "redirect" which effectively undoes the migration and restores that account to normal. I still have all of my followers there. After 30 days (if connectivity has been restored at that stage), I can attempt the migration again.

   I'm not sure, though, if doing that merges with, or overwrites, my existing followers and follows lists on here. Anyone know the answer to that? I'll mention @Gargron in case he can give me the definitive answer.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 03:35:34 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @ratcatcher

     How long ago did you do the migration?

     It took me about a week to migrate all my followers when I last did a transfer.

     The transfers happen in batches and depend on the follower's own server getting round to carrying it out. You may suddenly have a load of people from one server transferred, because their server has got to your request in the queue.

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     Nick G (ratcatcher@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 03:35:37 JST Nick G

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     • FediTips has moved!

     Actually, @feditips may know the answer to the above.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 03:54:40 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @ratcatcher

     " Posts from other instances are getting in, but no posts are getting out. "

     Ahhh... okay, that is probably related to the problem them. :blobsad:

     "But if they are already following me here, does that cause any issues?"

     No, that shouldn't be a problem. I've sometimes followed people's new accounts before the transfer did it automatically, and it worked fine. By the way, the transfer requests are totally behind the scenes, most people won't even notice anything.

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     Nick G (ratcatcher@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 03:54:41 JST Nick G

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     • FediTips has moved!

     @feditips

     I only initiated it yesterday. But 12 hours later not a single follower had transferred.

     There is an issue with neurodifferent.me at the moment. Posts from other instances are getting in, but no posts are getting out. So I doubt if my followers' instances received the transfer requests.

     My main question, though, is this:

     I now have some followers on this account, some who have re-followed me, plus a few new ones. Assuming that the problems with neurodifferent.me are resolved (at least temporarily) and I attempt the migration again after 30 days, what happens?

     From my understanding of your notes on migration, each follower account receives an automated request to stop following me on neurodifferent.me and instead to follow me on c.im. Presumably that doesn't affect new follows on this account, as they are not part of that. But what happens to followers who have already re-followed this account? They will get a request to stop following me on neurodifferent.me and to follow me here. But if they are already following me here, does that cause any issues?

     Hope that all makes sense.