Do you follow me using the handle “@pratik@micro.blog” on Mastodon? I plan to disable it since I cross-post almost everything to “@pratik@writing.exchange” anyway, so you can follow me there. I want to eliminate the duplicate account. Any downsides that I am missing?

@pratik One downside of disabling federation on this account is that it could screw up portability when people move their follows or followers to another instance.

@moonmehta Hence I want to know if anyone is even following me using that handle. They can follow the Mastodon one if they quit Micro.blog. The ones on Micro.blog can still see my posts and reply to it. I’ll respond on Micro.blog too.

@pratik is writing.exchange nice as a local server?

@fabio I like it. Nice people and low-key. Run by the folks who run write.as so blogging/writing centric.

@pratik I’d recommend aliasing your micro.blog Fediverse username to your Mastodon username. That way if anyone is following you on Micro.blog, they will be automatically moved. This is what I’ve done. Works a charm.

@jimmitchell Unfortunately that doesn’t work for me. You can’t login to a Mastodon app with your Micro.blog username.

@pratik No. You continue to use your Mastodon username on your instance. Anyone who follows you from Micro.blog will become a follower on the Mastodon instance automatically.

@jimmitchell

> aliasing your micro.blog Fediverse username to your Mastodon username.

I’m not sure I understand this. Do I do this on Mastodon or Micro.blog?​

@jimmitchell Ah! I see this in Micro.blog settings now. But how did you get your mastodon.social username to show up on your Micro.blog profile? Mine still shows the default Mb one.

@jimmitchell @pratik I’ve done the aliasing but I don’t see people auto-following my Mastodon if they follow on Micro.blog. I thought aliasing was for the two networks to know that the profiles belong to the same person. Perhaps @manton can clarify.

@pratik Why not just keep around both as federated and let people follow either of the profiles they stumble upon?

@moonmehta I should clarify this statement… Every time I’ve set up Micro.blog to Mastodon aliasing, I have seen users begin following on Mastodon. However, those who subsequently follow on Micro.blog may not (and probably don’t) automatically start following.

@pratik Under the “Moving from a different account” area of your Mastodon account, you create an alias of your Micro.blog Fediverse username. Then in your Micro.blog account under “ActivityPub,” clicking the “View Fediverse Details” button, you will have an option to “move away” where you can enter your Mastodon user name.

@moonmehta @jimmitchell To clarify this, the alias is purely to verify migrating accounts. There is no auto-follow feature that would sync the followers between the accounts on Micro.blog and Mastodon. (It’s not technically possible with the standard.)

@manton Thanks. This aligns with what I’ve seen. cc @moonmehta

@moonmehta That’s true. I mean, I don’t mind it. In my mind, it’s just creating more clutter 😬