Or do I need to start fresh?
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Mastodon supports account migration. You can export the list of your followers and the accounts you follow as CSV and import them from another instance. But there’s no option to import posts yet.
Also, note that when you migrate all followers in the old account will get automatically unfollowed.
For more details, see https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving