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@@ -218,6 +218,20 @@ is supported. Intentionally, the and .Pa /following paths return empty lists. +.Ss Migrating from Mastodon +User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass +that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is +not much that can be done, other than importing the list of people you +follow to your new +.Nm +account. +.Pp +To do this, download the user's list of accounts being followed (in CSV +format) from the Mastodon web interface and execute this: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +awk -F, 'NR > 1 { print $1 }' /path/to/following_accounts.csv | \\ +xargs -n 1 snac follow $SNAC_BASEDIR $SNAC_USER +.Ed .Ss Other Considerations .Nm stores all the messages it receives as JSON files, which are usually |