migrating instances

Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 45 points –

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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Found this in another post, didn't test it myself: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

I tested this and worked very well

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

Yes, only subscribed communities and block list

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.