i have a quiestion about the fediverse:

are followers linked to domain, some sort of id or some other way?

say i spin up my own mastodon server.

people follow my profile there.

then my mastodon server crashes and i have to do a full reinstall.

i make a user with the same name on the same domain, or even install pixelfed (same url's)

do people still follow me?

i understand that whoever i followed might be lost (but this is easy to export and backup), but what about people who followed me?

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