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If you log in through your Mastodon server's website and go to Preferences, there's an "Import & Export" section where you can download Follows (people you follow), Lists, Blocks, Mutes, Domain Blocks and Bookmarks. These can be backed up and re-uploaded to another account if needed.

You can't back up your followers (people who follow you), but you can transfer them from one account to another.

When you move accounts, you basically transfer followers and then upload backups.

@akrabu

p.s. You can also request an archive of your posts, though at present this cannot be uploaded to Mastodon. It is just for your personal use.

However, there's another kind of Fediverse server called Calckey which does let you import posts from your Mastodon post archive if you transfer your account there.

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@akrabu@ephemeral.glitch.social Does importing those posts retransmit them into the Fediverse as if they were all sent at once, or timestamp correct?

@mrhamel @akrabu

Well, technically they aren't the same posts. I think (someone from Calckey may correct me on this!) the importing basically re-posts the contents as new posts.

So, they will no longer be part of their original threads, but they will be shown as posted by your new account on Calckey.

I think the idea is to preserve information you may have shared on the old account, even if it doesn't preserve the original thread structure.