A couple of months ago I tried to migrate my #Mastodon account (this one) to my #snac instance (https://suigow.com) and it wouldn't work.
While testing tonight, I figured it out. Even though the bug is fixed, it looks like it might not be. Mastodon caches accounts and for some reason doesn't pick up the alias.
I did an update of the profile of the receiving account that caused it to update the profile on the Mastodon instance. That fixed it, the migration worked.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15462
steve mookie kong /
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2025-03-19 04:16:32
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2025-03-19 04:16:32Event JSON
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