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 Hi. I'm afraid there is no tool to migrate from a Pleroma account right now.

Yes, writing a script to port your posts could be possible in theory, but each post has an id that is an URL and as far as I know Pleroma and snac URLs are very different, so it may not be worth the effort.

You cannot transfer the people that follows you; I'm told that Mastodon does this (somewhat) by redirecting from the old account to the new one, but as far as I know you must keep the old account alive. People complain all the time about the reliability of this. I sincerely think that the best way to move your followers is writing a post saying "this is my new account from now on; please follow me".

The only thing you can reliably transfer is the people you follow; snac includes a command-line option to follow an actor, so you just need to feed it a list of actor's ids and that's it. Mastodon includes a way of exporting the followers as a comma-separated values file, I don't know if Pleroma has a similar option.

I apologize if the lack of viable options is disappointing to you.

 
 @The Real Grunfink You don't have to apoligize, I know stuff like this aren't easy. But I guess, reading your answer about transfering follower, that I did not explain myself clearly. Sorry, I should have been more precise.

I wasn't talking about migrating a Pleroma account to another account on a previously existing snac instance, but to replace Pleroma by snac on my own server while keeping the same domain/account/etc. Thus, there should be no need to ask people to follow me elsewhere, as, seen from the rest of the Fediverse, I'd stay at the same place.

I guess the difference between identifiers could indeed be a problem, but it may be possible to add a redirection from the old /notice/ to the new format, to at least keep the links working (won't be way more problematic than my current situation, I guess).

I hope it's a bit more understandable now, and once again, no need for apologies, answers would never disappointing me, especially since I know I'm asking for something really uncommon. 
 I'm afraid what I said applies the same even if both services share the same host and domain.