I've moved from https://social.bobcall.me/@jxself to here because my friend would like to stop maintaining his instance. Prior message are there. It appears that there's currently no functionality for moving the messages themselves which I find sad.
@jxself Hmm, I've bookmarked this to see if any answers appear. I've moved instances once and it worked fine, however I didn't care about the posts I left behind. In future I probably will care.
I know you can export your posts and media by "requesting an archive". The file produced is in ActivityPub format so might be importable. My instance shows no option to import posts and media. I wonder if an admin can do it to restore your account as it was on the old instance.
Not insurmountable, but also not just adding an import function. The new posts won't "be" the old posts in any meaningful way unless the network cooperates.
@clacke @shuttersparks URL changes are acceptable. A straight import gets them still associated with the current account. Coordination or cooperation in the form of redirecting old ones to new ones isn't something I want, and can't really have or expect anyway since the old one's shutting down.
@shuttersparks @clacke A solution has been found: I learned of the program Mastodon Archive https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-archive via https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/#whats-the-generally-accepted-mastodon-etiquette by way of @cynicaltj
I used this to make https://jxself.org/social.bobcall.me/
@shuttersparks @clacke I like that idea even better. It really should be done as part of the account migration process when the followers get moved over too.