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[charleslaughlin]

Hello, newcomer here! Opened an account at Vivaldi at the recommendation of a friend to improve my network security! I live in Orange, Virginia in the USA.

[charleslaughlin]

@ingolftopf If I already have a mastodon account on a different instance, can I set one up here too?

[Ayespy]

@charleslaughlin Yes. You can even merge them if you like. Mastodon allows this. But you already have a Vivaldi Social account on Mastodon. You don't have to set it up, just log in to it and then customize it however you like.

[ingolftopf]

@charleslaughlin
Hello and welcome here!

One more and you can create your own signature if you like.

[Catweazle]

@charleslaughlin, welcome and enjoy Vivaldi, and yes, with your account you can log in direct in Vivaldi social, independent if you have also an another account in other instance. You can use both or merge it.

[ingolftopf]

@Catweazle
You give the 3rd

nice

[charleslaughlin]

@Catweazle Thank you!

[acarumba]

@pafflick Hi all, I'm new here

[DoctorG]

@acarumba Welcome in our Vivaldi Community

Some useful links for you:

• Vivaldi Features
• How To
• Vivaldi Tips
• Tutorials
• Vivaldi Help
• Using the Forum Search
• Local Forums in your language
• Troubleshooting issues
• Common Security-Related Questions
• Help on Feature Requests
• Modding Vivaldi
• Snapshot vs Stable browser
• Vivaldi's Business Model
• Help us grow
• Vivaldi Social

Do not hesitate to ask, we are a community to help users.

Enjoy browsing with Vivaldi.

[Catweazle]

@acarumba welcome to the community

PS In my signature you'll find a list of Vivaldi links for your Bookmarks, which may be usefull for you

[edwardp]

Welcome to all our new users!

[ingolftopf]

@acarumba
Hello and welcome here!

Have fun with the browser, the forum and on "Mastodon": 'VIVALDI SOCIAL', social.vivaldi.net.

[ingolftopf]

@acarumba
One more and you can create your own signature if you like.

[charleslaughlin]

@Ayespy Thank you! Do you have any guidance on merging Mastodon accounts? Based on my experience setting one up and later changing instances, I suspect it's not simple!

[pafflick]

@charleslaughlin Try looking at the official documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
Welcome to our Community!

[charleslaughlin]

so, @Ayespy when you say "merge," you mean "redirect" or "create an alias," right? Merging is not an option in the mastodon documentation provided by @pafflick

[Ayespy]

@charleslaughlin First you need to have two accounts (as you do now) and then you need to create an alias and then you can migrate from the old account to the new. What this does is redirect anyone looking for your old account to the new one add the old account data to the new account, in effect, a merger.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

[charleslaughlin]

Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, but since this is a redirect and I am in effect "moving" from my former instance (zirk.us) to vivaldi, does that mean I would no longer belong to my old instance, so that, for example, what comes up in my "local" feed will be vivaldi only, or both?

[Ayespy]

@charleslaughlin I'm not familiar enough with how Mastodon works to answer that . Sorry.

[edwardp]

@charleslaughlin said in New to the Forum? Start here! :

Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, but since this is a redirect and I am in effect "moving" from my former instance (zirk.us) to vivaldi, does that mean I would no longer belong to my old instance, so that, for example, what comes up in my "local" feed will be vivaldi only, or both?

On the above link that @Ayespy provided, it describes what occurs when an account is moved from one instance to another.