I wish lemmy could have an option like mastodon where you can move your account to another instace without losing your subscriptions , saved posts , posts ,comments .etc.
Is it on the road map ? Like it would be really useful when an instance it going to shut down or an instace admin goes volatile , so we don't have to manage several accounts .
Update : it does have the feature well kinda you can only import setting and subscribtion no saved posts or anything . To do this you have to go to the web page, sign in , setting , import . Hope this was helpfull.
Subscriptions, block lists and general settings can be exported and imported since version 0.19.X
Mastodon doesn't allow to import posts due to technical limitations (as it would also a security risks, anyone being able to massively inject posts into an instance):
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export
Can you tell me how i can do that i couldn't find any resources for that at lemmy.org
lemmy.org still runs on version 0.18.2 so it doesn't have that feature.
They are on feddit.ch so it's all good. The Lemmy documentation should be hosted elsewhere, but it seems to be behind feature development, the latest ones are not explained: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/06-other-features.html
Account Settings, right-side "Export/Import settings"
Tnx
Can you please maybe edit your post to explain that actually Lemmy does this? Something like [Update: it does] or something
Ok just tyoe out out what you want me to edit and i'll copy paste it.Include what all does it do and steps so people can do it easily.
Don't you have all of that information from the comments above?
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it would be nice if accounts existed seperately from instances somehow.
like a seperate identity service for the fediverse in general. Ideally with an option to use different aliases on different instances, instransparently to the instances, but with some way to carry over "reputation" from other instances.
From what I remember the main issue here is technical.
At the end of the day, your account needs to be attached to a technical entity, even if it's only an identity provider. You could imagine Lemmy instances that would only host accounts and not communities (some of them are already in this case, but more because of a lack of activity their from their own volition). For the reputation, you can indicate your alts on every of your accounts. Not the most elegant way, but there are areas where we are functioning with even more tweaks and work arounds (e.g. moderation)
There is an app called Handshake which helps you sync your community subscriptions between different instances. Check it out here https://github.com/gusVLZ/lemmy_handshake . It has worked for me in the past.
Is there still a need now that version 19.X allow subscriptions export and import?
if your account is stuck on LW 😂
Good opportunity to jump ships and see how it is elsewhere!
You could use some block chain methodology to keep "ownership" of posts when you move instances. Not to say it's easy to implement but cryptographically there are ways to prove a post was made by you. If you're concerned about anonymity this of course works against you.