Is it possible? I’m with sh.itjust.works but I saw a few posts who were saying that my instance blocks certain stuff. Now I’m not thinking of jumping ship right this second just wondering if that is a possibility.
This is a how to use Lemmy question so better suited for one of the support communities - check out the sidebar for suggestions.
With that said, helping people spread out onto different instances is good stuff so I think this is good info to leave up.
You can download your account settings, and upload to a new account on another instance. https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Author here! I’ve been posting about it a good bit, and especially with the hack of .world and vlemmy’s disappearance, now others have started sharing it too. Besides myself testing it with lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and lemm.ee, I’ve seen at least a handful of people that say they’ve run it without issues. I’m assuming the real number is much higher but there isn’t any tracking in the app, or even a download counter, so I really have no idea.
Only known issue at the minute is whether it works on Mac OS X. It theoretically does, but the only person who attempted it ran into issues where OS X wanted to open it as a text file instead of running the program - and it’s the only platform I can’t test myself.
Obviously if you do have any issues you can report them on GitHub.
You will need to make a new one.
Personally I recently did the same because lemmy.world didn’t commit to defederating meta and I didn’t want to stay there, but I am not very happy on .ml either, I get an insane amount of tankie crap on the all feed now and apparently no more nsfw posts.
I’m an anti capitalist myself but I strongly oppose the idea that someone preselects what communities are visible to me, on .world it felt much more organic and well rounded.
Ultimately I will just have to make my own instance i suppose.
Feel free to join https://lemmings.world! No censorship (except for illegal stuff obviously) and no federation with Meta. NSFW is fine, too.
It isn’t possible currently. You can create an account on a different instance though.
Are you that guy who had been asking “why is ‘gaybrosgonewild’ blocked”?
