alt Hacker News> Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive.
Sadly that's still an open issue that from time to time gets new input, but doesn't have a lot of traction. I feel like that's a big blind spot of Mastodon to this day and also basically forces people to stick to the largest instances that are less likely to go away, defeating the purpose of a distributed social network.
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senderista • today at 5:38 PM
It's also a source of power for mods.
There's this if you want an automated way to download and repost your content: https://mastodoncontentmover.github.io/