Migrating your identity

Your identity is yours, so you can move it to a different server whenever you want. You don’t need the old server’s permission — that’s the whole point.

What comes with you

• Your handle (your @-name stays the same).
• Your posts, follows, and likes.
• Your followers — they keep following the same you, no re-adding needed.

How a move works

Obsign walks you through it. In plain terms:

1. Choose the server you want to move to (or set up your own).
2. Obsign copies your posts and data over to it.
3. Obsign points your identity at the new server, approved right on your device.
4. Obsign double-checks the new server really has everything before it finishes.

Don’t shut down the old server too early

Leave the old server running until Obsign says the move is done. That final check is what turns a copy into a finished move.

This really works

The move has been tested all the way through on the real network, including moving an identity to a big provider and back. Operators can read the server side in Running a relay.