Hello Mastodon users, I'm working on migrating to a new instance since Med-Mastodon is shutting down.

@bich @FediTips So I waited 24 hrs, and I think I found the problem on my end. I entered the new account I was migrating to, and then instead of entering the password to the new account next, I entered the password from the old med-mastodon account (which is counter-intuitive as I was entering the password of the new acct). If I had read it more carefully it says enter password of the current account. I figured it out after I first entered my new acct password and it had an error message.

@bich Hiya fellow expatriate from med-mastodon. I tried my hand at migrating to the FediMedi GoToSocial that @wild1145 and co. set up. I has been a bit of a bumpy road but it seems that I have managed to get things settled down.
First thing though, I got the account in FediMedi open. Set up what they call an "alias" with the handle @ med-mastodon format. Then in the med-mastodon I set up the migrate. Hahaha same thing, I entered the new handle and that handle's pwd, of course it kept giving me red until I read more carefully and entered the med-mastodon's handle password. Follows and Followers seem to have transferred correctly (although I did have to manually upload the CSV file with the accounts I follow).

Have not managed to get the bookmarks uploaded. I'm going to need help from @wild1145

Next up is the fact that the GoToSocial does not have a web interface of its own. I tried one of the suggestions in the FediMedi page and all I got was a terrible headache. @wild1145 mentioned in a post in med-mastodon that they have Elk in the other instances they manage. Tried the interface and I like it very much. Reset hashtags and lists.

Downloaded the profile from med-mastodon, will try my luck at uploading it, but probably until the weekend.

Oh, on a showy turn of events...we get 2000 char in this instance...wow

@huskify @FediTips @mwadmin @wild1145 @pixelcats

Thank you for your help. To move to a different account, I have tried:
- put @ in front of new handle
- not putting @ in front of new handle
- using password of new account
- using password of old account
- resetting password of old account
- waiting 24 hrs
- turning off 2FA on both accounts

Moving to different account seems to move followers. Importing who I follow is more important and that worked. I've updated old profile with new handle.

@huskify @FediTips @mwadmin @wild1145 @pixelcats

Thank you for your help. To move to a different account, I have tried:
- put @ in front of new handle
- not putting @ in front of new handle
- using password of new account
- using password of old account
- resetting password of old account
- waiting 24 hrs
- turning off 2FA on both accounts

Moving to different account seems to move followers. Importing who I follow is more important and that worked. I've updated old profile with new handle.

@bich Checking in to see how you're going. I got my bestie to move an alt over here to test today and all seemed to go smoothly.

A few things ..

Did you setup the med-mastodon account as an alias on your apobangpo account first? See: https://apobangpo.space/settings/aliases

And we found we didn't need the @ at the front of the username when setting the redirect at the old server end.

I'm sorry it hasn't been an easy process!

@pixelcats That worked! I didn't realize I needed to enter the old handle in the new account alias first! 🥳 Thank you so much.

@bich Yay! I'm glad we figured it out!

@huskify @FediTips @mwadmin @wild1145 @pixelcats

Thank you for your help. To move to a different account, I have tried:
- put @ in front of new handle
- not putting @ in front of new handle
- using password of new account
- using password of old account
- resetting password of old account
- waiting 24 hrs
- turning off 2FA on both accounts

Moving to different account seems to move followers. Importing who I follow is more important and that worked. I've updated old profile with new handle.

@bich

Just to make sure, there's one other thing to check:

If you do "Move to a different account" first, it won't work.

You need to go the new server and do "Moving from a different account", and then wait a while, and then go back to the old server and do "Move to a different account".

@FediTips I got it working! I went to the new account to add my old handle. Then, went to old account and added new handle. Thanks for your help!