If you want to transfer your Mastodon account from one server to another, here's a step by step guide on how to do it:
(I've re-written and extended the version previously posted, to make everything clearer. The old version left some things unclear.)
@feditips that's a good guide!
still weird in my opinion that following the official guide for transferring the accounts only transfers followers and creates a redirect, and nothing else (not even auto-following all the of the users of the old one!)
I think it's because the transferring of follows and settings through the CSV files was possible a long time before the transferring of followers.
As the two processes were written at different times, they ended up being separate.
This separation isn't obvious to users, which is why I've tried to combine them in the guide. (And that's why it's got so many steps