@FediTips I migrated about a month and a half ago, and did not get email notifications about followers during the migration.

I do have email notifications active for new followers.

What is disabled for me is the setting 'Always send e-mail notifications', which has the explanation 'Normally e-mail notifications won't be sent when you are actively using Mastodon'.

Since I use the site virtually every single day, that might be a factor.

@FediTips When I moved in September I had email notification turned off at both ends of the move and received none. I did receive notifications within Mastodon.

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Good q. I don't remember exactly anymore so it could well be that I reviewed my notification settings here much before I moved the other account here. A clue is that I don't get mails for follow requests here, so I might have turned them off before migration.

When migrating yes I got the follow requests in the notification timeline, but not via mail.

@FediTips I have moved my account a few times (due to servers shutting down). I have my email notifications set to OFF and have never gotten a follower transfer email.

@FediTips I have email notifications turned off so I didn't get emails, but I got a bazillion general notifications. I moved instances about a year ago.

@FediTips I moved last year (September 2024), but I set-up the new account to have all email notifications turned off before I ran the migration, so I didn't get any notifications (I had notifications turned off on the old account also). I did have the new account up and running for a couple of weeks where I just imported the people I was following before running the migration to move the followers, but that theoretically shouldn't have made a difference.

(if it matters I went from a vanilla mastodon server that I think was being run by masto.host to a glitch server with custom tinkering by my admins, but I don't think any of their tinkering was around this area)

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July 2024, with emails re: new followers Off
= no emails.

@FediTips I migrated last month. No, I didn't get a flood of emails but I do get email every time someone new follows me

@FediTips The first time I moved, I got a flood of emails. The second time I moved, I made sure to disable email notifications before uploading my followers CSV file.

@FediTips i didn't even get a single email but that might have been a settings thing 😂 I did get a pile of notifications in-app of my followers following me

@FediTips I've moved accounts twice, and didn't get a notification flood from either of them. Keep in mind that I'm pretty sure I had notifications off, or at least I think so, I hadn't gotten notifications any other time.

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i did not. and i had those notifications off.

@FediTips Yes, I had a lot of incoming e-mail. It might have been my mistake as I didn't deactivate e-mail notifications from the preferences, here in poliversity, when I migrated from MastodonUno

@FediTips I did not get a flood of emails, moving from mastodon.social to fosstodon.org, in Jan 2025

@FediTips I turn off email notifications so can't say. But i got flooded with regular notifications

@FediTips I moved my account last month, and did noch get a flood of mails. The initial wave of moved subscribers did not trigger the mail, but it did trigger the notification sound of the browser tab on desktop.
Two subscribers, which came an hour later, did trigger a mail.
But to be completely honest, I do not know of they followed me before the move, or came from the "hello!"-post on the new server.

@FediTips I did move my profile once but do not remember mails.

I think I got a lot of notifications but I'm not sure anymore, was around 2 years ago I think.

@FediTips no, we didn't. moved april 28, 2025

@FediTips I have email notifications turned off - so when I moved about a year ago I didn't get any notifications.

@FediTips no I never did, I moved a Year ago

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Moved juli 2024 from social to todon.
Didn't get a flood of e-mails but that could have been my settings. For most things I prefer just the notifications, not e-mail.
My followers were just silently transferred as far as I remember.
I followed your 'how to' btw. Worked like a charm. ☺️

@FediTips I don't have enough followers to get a flood, but I certainly got a moderate trickle of new follower emails on moving.

@FediTips I've moved twice and did not get floods of emails, but those were 1 to 3 years ago.

@FediTips moved from mastodon.social about a year ago, didn't get and e-mail flood

@FediTips Looks like I migrated about 100 followers from mastodon.social back in July and I didn't get lots of emails:
https://mastodon.social/@ghostsigns/114889659771961032

@FediTips I started my own instance in February 2025, and I created a new account (this one) maybe half a year later. At both times, I remember getting my inbox full of notifications about people who had "just started following" me.

@FediTips I didn't because I turned off email notifications, but I would have probably gotten them otherwise, as I got lots and lots of regular notifications.

@FediTips Yes, I got a flood of emails before I turned email notifications off. I moved my account on July 22, of this year.

@FediTips I’ve moved twice, and I don’t recall that I had lots of emails like that. I did move almost a year ago though.

@FediTips I definitely got flood of some sort when I moved to my current instance about three weeks ago (?), but I can’t recall if it was notifications of following or if not was follow requests. I had to make my account open for anyone to follow for a day, because I was getting a lot of requests to follow.