Am I allowed to change my username without losing followers & those I follow? I don't want to lose everyone and don't want to keep the Heidiknits name. I also don't know what a good new username would be (suggestions?) and Heidi is already taken.
I'm not savvy with technology so this may be a disaster.
@Heidiknits Well, HeidiHi might lead people to think you're a stoner account and HeidiHo has different negative connotations so I'm coming up empty.
@LilPecan Bahhhh! Thank you for your contribution but I think I'll keep searching.
@Heidiknits At least you know I gave it some effort, as poor as the result may be.
@Heidiknits It looks like changing a username is not possible in Mastodon due to the technical design. Best bet may be to create a new account, and post to the old one encouraging followers to (manually) move to the new one. Sorry. :-(
@mchesner This would be unfortunate but I think someone else posted that I may be able it. I'll read more tomorrow morning!
@Heidiknits It looks like you can change your user name in the same way as moving to another instance.
Edit: instructions that I used to move myself
https://news.mstdn.ca/migrating-your-account-to-mstdn-ca/
@samloonie interesting. I'll have to look into it tomorrow morning. My worst fear is that I'm going to eff it up & lose people I follow. I enjoy my tl & I put a lot of work into making it that way.
@Heidiknits You can create a new account and move your old account to the new one. Your followers and those you follow will move with you but your posts do not.
@Lena you make it sound so easy.