Move lemmy subscriptions to another instance : fediverse

[+] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] esty@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

mastodon also has this feature built in and i would love to see it come to lemmy

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

It's currently being worked on as a native function of Lemmy

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3480

[-] CMahaff@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Hey, author of LASIM here if people have any questions!

Just so people know it does save everything to a JSON file when you click "download" so you can absolutely upload to multiple accounts or keep it as a backup.

[-] doleo@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year 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.

[+] live_long_prosper@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] esty@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

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

[-] brettvitaz@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I think it may be too late to follow your advice

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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 1 year 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

[-] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

https://feddit.nl/post/458654

This is the largest post about it I know about. Basically it went down (disappeared? Not clear) yesterday and it’s a bit weird.

[-] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year 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.

[-] PixelPassport@chat.maiion.com 5 points 1 year 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

[-] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Block Community lists, too!

[-] anowhere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year 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 🤕

[-] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] CMahaff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

LASIM definitely does not - it's designed for desktop and written rust, so not easily portable to iOS/Android.

Doesn't look like lemmy-migrate would either - it's a python script - unless there's a mobile python interpreter app or something.

[-] esty@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

iOS probably not but I think you could run python stuff in termux for android

[-] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] brain_pan@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] esty@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year 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

[-] SuperSpaceFan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

How can I make LASIM work on Android without use of a PC?

[+] artifice@lemmy.world -12 points 1 year ago

Much appreciated post, thanks!

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