Move lemmy subscriptions to another instance

3 years ago by esty to c/fediverse

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

TiffyBelle 50 points 3 years ago

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esty 22 points 3 years ago

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

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Undearius 13 points 3 years ago

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

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

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CMahaff 47 points 3 years 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.

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live_long_prosper 24 points 3 years ago

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esty 31 points 3 years ago

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

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live_long_prosper 9 points 3 years ago

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OtakuAltair 1 point 3 years ago

An admin account on lemmy.world got hacked earlier today. I wonder if these are connected 🤔

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brettvitaz 1 point 3 years ago

I think it may be too late to follow your advice

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ieatpillowtags 8 points 3 years ago

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

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esty 2 points 3 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

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rach 1 point 3 years ago

@ieatpillowtags @brettvitaz I thought it was weird.
I could get on there a couple of minutes yesterday and then it just stopped working.
Today I could get the basic site without any posts.

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Lemmylefty 19 points 3 years 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.

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doleo 22 points 3 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.

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3rdBlueWizard 17 points 3 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.

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PixelPassport 5 points 3 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

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anowhere 3 points 3 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 🤕

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cedarmesa 3 points 3 years ago

💀

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CMahaff 1 point 3 years 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.

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esty 3 points 3 years ago

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

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cedarmesa 3 points 3 years ago

💀

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brain_pan 2 points 3 years ago

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

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esty 2 points 3 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

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SuperSpaceFan 1 point 3 years ago

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

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artifice -10 points 3 years ago

Much appreciated post, thanks!

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