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2 .Ss Migrating from snac to Mastodon
3 Since version 2.60, you can migrate your
4 .Nm
5-account to other ActivityPub instances. I will describe the process to do it from
6+account to other ActivityPub instances. What is described here is the process to do it from
7 .Nm
8-to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be very different. All
9+to Mastodon; on other software implementations, it will surely be somewhat different. All
10 the steps regarding your
11 .Nm
12 account must be done from the command line. For the sake of the example, let's
13@@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ then click on
14 .Vt Create an account alias
15 and follow the instructions. (When it asks you to
16 write your old account’s handle, it needs to include the @ at the start
17-as well as the @ in the middle, in our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
18-According to the link above, you must wait at least five minutes for
19-this to be effective.
20+as well as the @ in the middle; as of our example, @origin@snac.example.org).
21+It seems this step is not performed immediately, you must wait an unspecified
22+number of minutes for this to be effective.
23 .Pp
24 4. Meanwhile, you must tell
25 .Nm
26@@ -447,14 +447,15 @@ snac alias $SNAC_BASEDIR origin "@destination@mastodon.example.com"
27 to start the migration process, that will consist in iterating all the
28 people that follows your account and sending them a
29 .Vt Move
30-message, notifying all of them that they must unfollow your old account
31+message, that acts as a suggestion to unfollow your old account
32 and follow the new one. The command is
33 .Bd -literal -offset indent
34 snac migrate $SNAC_BASEDIR origin
35 .Ed
36 .Pp
37-This process can be very long and unreliable. I recommend you to read
38-the document I linked above to know how heartbreaking it can be.
39+This process can be very long and unreliable; any destination server may be down,
40+too busy, disconnected or gone. I recommend you to read the document I linked
41+above to know about all the sorrows awaiting.
42 .Ss Migrating from Mastodon to snac
43 User migration from different Fediverse instances is a pain in the ass
44 that has been implemented everywhere as a kludgy afterthought. There is