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You might say that well I’m no worse off than before which is true but still feels weird that I was unable to use my existing riot im account when I wanted to sign into Mozilla’s riot server. I ended up creating a different login for Mozilla’s riot.

I think of myself as a technophile but element/matrix/riot made me eat the humble pie.

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Is it possible you were trying to login without the full path? You're email isn't minot, it's minot@hckrnews.com. Similarly, on Matrix, your username isn't minot, but minot@matrix.org. Trying to sign in with your provider can be non-obvious, and would also cause the issue it sounds like you were having :)

Small correction. The syntax for MXIDs is @minot:matrix.org, not minot@matrix.org in order to prevent people from mixing it with emails.

My mistake! I must have been stuck thinking on the email analogy

There is currently no way to port user profiles between homeservers of matrix. They have it planned, but I don't know the current progress on that.

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