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migrating instances (lemmy.world)

Is there a tool that makes it easy to migrate to a different lemmy instance? The idea is copying my subscriptions over to the new instance. Thanks.

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[-] Flashback956@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I tested this and worked very well

[-] tenth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Did it migrate all your posts/comments/saved items? It looks like just subscriptions

[-] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, only subscribed communities and block list

[-] Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I'd looooove to see Mastodon's export/import feature on Lemmy, I've already had some servers shut down and it would've been really nice to duplicate all of my subs

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

The feature has been noted on GitHub but it's probably a complicated task so I'm guessing it will be a while before it gets implemented. Would love to be able to link accounts across instances as well, even if posts/comments aren't mirrored.

[-] Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

IKR? Sounds like a basic must have feature for any platform on the fediverse.

[-] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Not at the moment, it's a known issue on GitHub which I seems like a large task, so it may be a while before it can be done

[-] teh_bishop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not that I’ve found. My favorite part of moving to a new instance is screenshotting the communities you’re in, going to the new instance and searching and … they don’t show up for some reason.

[-] Flashback956@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

They don't show up probably because that instance is so new nobody subbed to that community yet, hence the reason it can't find it.

[-] jrbaconcheese@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

If you search by the full URL of the sub and make sure that Search is set to “All” it will show up eventually. If you then subscribe, your instance will then be federated and start to receive info from that community but it does take a bit of time to get.

If you join a medium-sized but weeks-old instance then it is likely to already have been federated and you won’t have much of a headache.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

So the instances that individual users are subscribed to are what show up in your default instance feed? I thought the default feed for your instance was just which communities your instance set to show. So if someone is subbed to, say, underwater-needle-felting and they are on my instance, I will see underwater-needle-felting stuff on my main feed? Do those show up when I switch to subscribed instead of main?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes to everything except the last part, if you switch to subscribed, you see your subscriptions.

[-] jrbaconcheese@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

You’ll see it if you search for it and in All, but it won’t be in your Local or Subscribe feed

[-] richardazia@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

On mastodon and calckey migrating from instance to instance is easy. I don't see it as a feature on kbin yet.

[-] supermurs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If there are, I wish I would've known before I created a completely new account on a new instance.

[-] kezza596@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Someone suggested using different instance accounts like multi reddits. Then you just jump between accounts, depending what stuff you feel like seeing then.

Another idea was making accounts on instances that interest you and using their local posts to find other things that are similar.

Eg I have a feddit UK account which I plan to make a localised UK focused one.

[-] Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good idea! Different accounts for different moods and purposes.

[-] Ac5000@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Someone already posted the wescode migrate, but here's my Python code that does a bit more. It's not the most user friendly yet, but I'm working on it.

https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync

[-] Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Perfect thank you!

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