A couple of months ago I tried to migrate my #Mastodon account (this one) to my #snac instance (suigow.com) and it wouldn't work.

While testing tonight, I figured it out. Even though the bug is fixed, it looks like it might not be. Mastodon caches accounts and for some reason doesn't pick up the alias.

I did an update of the profile of the receiving account that caused it to update the profile on the Mastodon instance. That fixed it, the migration worked.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

Account migration is not working in 3.3.0 · Issue #15462 · mastodon/mastodon

Expected behaviour I created an account alias on the new server and verified it I tried to move the account on the old server and recieved the error message: The account and it's followers should m...

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