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It is not really a fediverse feature but i enjoyed a lot discovering it. :)

One advantage of nomadic identity is that it is probably the best existing way of moving your identity from one server to another. Unlike projects based on ActivityPub, it doesn't create a dumb copy or partial copy of your account on another server and leave the original behind as a usually dead account. It actually moves the content without leaving anything behind, and it moves all the content.

So let's suppose [email protected] wants to move to bar.social. The process goes like this:

• Create a new account on bar.social (unless Alice already has one there).
• Upload the whole [email protected] channel to the new account on bar.social. This can be done either by having bar.social download it from foo.social or by manually downloading the channel from foo.social to a file and then manually uploading this file to bar.social; the latter has been experienced to be more reliable.
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