Do WordPress followers transition?

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homest56
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I am moving my wordpress.com blog to wordpress.org hosting with you. The followers I have accrued over the years, will their transition be seamless in receiving notices about posts and the like, or do I need to have them sign up in a different way to receive posts? Thanks

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christopherm
Hello Homest56, Thank you for contacting us about migrating WordPress.com followers. This process does not happen automatically, but it is certainly possible, and there is a workflow for it. The plugin you will want to use is called Jetpack. This plugin specializes in retaining the WordPress.com features in a self-hosted WordPress site. The Jetpack documentation has a full guide regarding how to migrate followers from a WordPress.com hosted site to a self-hosted site. They refer to this process as "Subscriber Migration". It basically involves setting up your self-hosted site first and then migrating your subscribers. Best, Christopher M.