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Move lemmy subscriptions to another instance (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by esty@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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With the vlemmy situation ongoing, i feel like it would be useful to put this here (i did not make either of these tools)

Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator (LASIM) copies all your subscribed communities and blocks and lets you upload them to another account, in just a few clicks

lemmy-migrate does the same thing but without a GUI and support for uploading your backup to multiple accounts at once

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[–] live_long_prosper@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the vlemmy situation?

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

it went offline and no one really knows what’s going on

[–] live_long_prosper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That is very unfortunate did not hear about it I just use Lemmy.world.

[–] brettvitaz@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it may be too late to follow your advice

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For vlemmy it may be too late, the point is you can use this tool going forward at your next instance.

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

yeah exactly, for future use

i used it to copy my subscriptions to accounts i made on a few other instances, even though i have no worry Lemmy.ca will shut down any time soon, as a just in case

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 14 points 2 years ago

Thanks for posting this, it's something I've been looking for. Incidentally, what happened with vlemmy? Somehow, I havent seen anything about it.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

This sort of stuff is crucial and needs to be built in.

Most instances are one user's whim away from going away. This isn't a problem as long as clients back things up and migration is easy. But, that doesn't happen right now.

Guarantee we'll see some big news at points in the future when a big instance goes down because the owner died or just lost interest.

Again, these are easily overcome, but they are issues right now.

[–] artifice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Much appreciated post, thanks!

[–] anowhere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks @esty@lemmy.ca ! The export worked well (ran LASIM on Windows), and the JSON file contains my followed communities and profile settings. Wish I had this prior to the Vlemmy outage 🤕

[–] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Block Community lists, too!

[–] PixelPassport@chat.maiion.com 4 points 2 years ago

This is the first I've heard of LASIM, love that it copies blocks as well. I've been using lemmy-migrate and I don't think there's any options for block lists but otherwise it works really well across multiple accounts

[–] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Assuming this doesnt work on mobile?

[–] brain_pan@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the former's honestly a godsend in setting up alt accounts

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

ya fr i used it to copy settings to shitjustworks and lemmee, i don’t think my instance is going anywhere any time soon but ya can never be too careful

[–] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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