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Export/Import Communities (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Nusm@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Since lemmy.world is having trouble for the second time in three days, I decided to switch back over to my lemmy.ml account. Unfortunately I don't have all of my communities back over here in my .ml account, and it took me over an hour to manually subscribe to the ones I had over on my .world account.

It would be great if there was a way that we could export our community list from one instance and import it to another. It would make it much easier to change communities if the need arises.

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[–] anowhere@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator tool:

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

[–] gonta@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I have use this and I can vouch that it works on most instances; I moved my subscriptions from another instance to mander.xyz using this tool.

But I also have another account in a smaller instance and it doesn't work. I'm guessing that instance hasn't been updated.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know how savvy you are but I have seen some posts about people offering some options. A quick Google for instance gives me this: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

[–] object_Object@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It would be best if activitypub could somehow keep one account across all instances

[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Ideally we would be able to completely migrate identities between instances. I know Mastodon has this capability (haven't tried it, don't know how difficult it is).