So I'm officially moving my primary over to @benhamill if you want to keep hearing from me or get me to reply in any kinda fast manner. I'll remind again a few times over the next few days before this account goes mostly silent.
@benhamill This might be a real problem with migration. Assuming people will refollow you is a big, obvious mistake.
@JoshuaACNewman Yeeeeaaaaaaaah. I dunno if I really care? Or, anyway, how ✨much✨ I really care. I have 155 followers here and 59 over there. I think the 59 are almost entirely a subset.
But, like, focusing on follower count and worrying about losing followers seems like a very birdsite thing to do. I haven't been on Mastodon that long... More people will find me if they want to.
I'm not worried about, like, "maximizing my reach" or whatever.
Yeah, right now it doesn't matter much. @benhamill
Well, it's a design concern. Right now, you're right: it doesn't matter. But for someone like me, that reach can determine if I can pay my bills.
I'm concerned about it on a design level, of course, rather than a concern that somehow you're making a mistake.
@benhamill
@JoshuaACNewman Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh yeah. I see where you're at. You might should weigh in on https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177, if you haven't already.
@JoshuaACNewman There ✨has✨ been some talk of writing a migration tool, though, that would somehow link your two accounts and notify your followers' servers to switch the follow reference over or however that would work. But I don't care enough to wait, for sure.