So I realized that signing up on lemmy.world may not have been the best option for me, so I'm wondering what the best way to move instances (I'd like to move to pawb.social or lemmy.blahaj.zone) for my account would be I'm most worried about leaving everything I made on this account behind forever, but I've seen online that there's no way to actually move your account to another instance, so what do you guys suggest the best procedure is?

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 17 hours ago

Make the account

Export your subscriptions/saved/other settings in the lemmy settings. Then import that on the new account.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 45 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Somewhere in your profile settings there's an export. It won't export your posts, just which communities you follow and who you've blocked, etc. Import those into your new account on the new instance.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 24 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

What? I had no idea! I manually migrated my subscriptions over when I switched!

It was hard for me, so I vote everyone must manually do it, for character building or some such bullshit.

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

It wasn't always an option - around the time of the first big mass migration of Reddit users it wasn't something you could do. I actually wrote a tool at that time that could automate the manual action of re-subscribing / re-blocking everything.

But yeah, these days it's a feature of Lemmy itself, which is great because it's much more efficient than trying to do things client-side.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah the "We didn't build a better world for our children for the benefit of the goddamn kids" attitude. My country is currently dying of that.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

I'm stealing that quote, that's fuckin fantastic. If you came up with that, kudos

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

hahhaahh.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Perfect idea!

Let’s improve the character building by requiring people to first setup their own Lemmy instance before they can join a larger one.

That surely will improve the amount of users here 😇

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Banger instance btw

[–] kane@femboys.biz 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Thank you! Had the domain for a while, and now found the perfect use case for it :D

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm curious why you'd like to move away from .world? I'm mostly lazy, but I also have not found another instance that even seems worth the effort.

[–] Inkstainthebat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Main reason is that imo, lemmy.world is already quite big, and smaller communities need more support/users Aside from that, It would also say more about me!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 6 points 18 hours ago

Just sign up, that's what I did

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Relevant discussion: https://lemmy.world/post/186554

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

Looks like that thread is from before they added the data import/export feature.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In your bio on old profile set a link to your new profile, that's the only way currently. Then set up a script that migrates your subscription list to the new account.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Then set up a script that migrates your subscription list to the new account

No need for that, you can export your subscriptions and settings on your profile page.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Ah, didn't know, that must be new(ish).