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
Hopefully in future this is built in to the software. Ideally you’d be able to download a JSON/XML file from your settings page for your settings/subscribed communities then upload them to a different instance similar to how it works with Piped instances, for example.
It’s currently being worked on as a native function of Lemmy
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.
Thanks for posting this, it’s something I’ve been looking for. Incidentally, what happened with vlemmy? Somehow, I havent seen anything about it.
For vlemmy it may be too late, the point is you can use this tool going forward at your next instance.
This is the largest post about it I know about. Basically it went down (disappeared? Not clear) yesterday and it’s a bit weird.
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.
