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
Much appreciated post, thanks!
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
Thanks for posting this, it’s something I’ve been looking for. Incidentally, what happened with vlemmy? Somehow, I havent seen anything about it.
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 🤕
This is the largest post about it I know about. Basically it went down (disappeared? Not clear) yesterday and it’s a bit weird.
For vlemmy it may be too late, the point is you can use this tool going forward at your next instance.
