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Lemmy Handshake - Beta release
(sh.itjust.works)
The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it's opensource and free, currently working in android and windows.
It's in homologation now and anyone can test, any feedbacks are welcome as always.
If you find any bugs please report
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Beware!
This unsubscribed me from twenty+ communities on all of my instances. It first tried to subscribe all of my accounts to all of the communities of my largest instance, which is what I wanted it to do. One instance failed to sub to 20+ communities, which was fine, as it was a smaller instance.
Ten minutes later, however, I got a notification that it had unsubscribed all of my other instances from those communities as well. It took me about an hour to figure out most of the ones that had been lost, and even now I think I'm missing a few.
I'm sorry it happened, it definitely should not do it, could you describe the steps you made to trigger this behavior? So I can patch it ASAP?
Please add a logging functionality, so that even if something like that would happen in the future because of some special case bug, it would still be possible to figure out which subscriptions were removed.
Same thing happened to me, it seemed like it didn't do it when I had just two accounts, but it did do it when I had 3.
Not sure if it has anything to do with certain communities not being federated to the other instances
Here is everything I can remember doing:
Downloaded the apk
Installed and opened the program
Allowed notifications
Input my four instances: lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.basedcount.com, and lemmy.ml
Hit "sync" and watched them sync. Three of these instances had almost the same number of communities (around 120), but one had none whatsoever. It took two or three minutes for that instance (basedcount) to sync all of the communities, and in the end, it wasn't able to subscribe to about 20 of them for some reason. (maybe because nobody had ever gone to those communities from that instance before - I've heard this can lead to access problems, but you'd probably know more about that than I would)
About five minutes later, I got couple of notifications saying that 6(-ish) communities had been synced and that 18(-ish) had been unsubscribed across my instances. This confused me, so I checked my instance list and saw that all three of my instances with around 120 communities now had around 95.
I disabled notifications because they were starting to feel spammy.
I looked at the notification again and realized what had actually happened. I immediately uninstalled the program and resubscribed to as many communities as I could on lemm.ee, my main account.
Sorry this is so long - I hope it helps!
No reddthat too? ๐
Ooh, great suggestion - I just signed up there as well! Thanks!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this, it will be so helpful for sure