Finally went ahead and moved my account from .social to a proper instance. I felt Fosstodon was appropriate, given I've been trying to do more Emacs + org-mode contributions in my free time.
I set up the redirect from my old account, but got an error message when trying to "move" it...maybe I'll try again in the morning :/
@jamesnvc yeah just remove the redirect, add the alias for both, then you can move like you intended
@blueberry Very odd, still not working. Maybe I'll just let it sit overnight & see if like the database needs to catch up - I see Gargron tooting about some db issues
@blueberry Oh, hm, I had added this account as an alias on the old one, but it didn't seem to work, so I removed it...and now, after setting up a redirect, I doesn't give me that option 🙃 I suppose I'll try reactivating the old one & setting up the bidirectional aliases. Thanks for the tip!