(Full disclosure: I made one of the tools)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1292268

lemmy.world cross-post link: https://lemmy.world/post/1251192

With the vlemmy situation ongoing, i feel like it would be useful to put this here (i did not make either of these tools)

Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator (LASIM) copies all your subscribed communities and blocks and lets you upload them to another account, in just a few clicks

lemmy-migrate does the same thing but without a GUI and support for uploading your backup to multiple accounts at once

  • mintiefresh@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    Man, in the ol’ days (20 days ago) I did this all manually.

    Kids these days have it easy!

    • jrubal1462@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      For me, the ol’ days was yesterday, when I came to terms with the idea that VLemmy wasn’t coming back, and I manually copied over all my subscriptions from a duplicate account.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    This could be useful, however, I’m not sure if I want to merge my accounts. I made 3 to split the communities I want to follow, but I notice I mainly use 1. (this one ;) )

    Also, no clue (yet) how the ConfigParser handles spaces in arguments. (and how to solve this if the answer is ‘not well’)

  • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I would if down the line an export option will be natively available by lemmy or kbin like how you can import and export bookmarks files.

  • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Am I just super dumb? I don’t see instructions on how to actually run LASIM? The instructions say that’s the first thing you do but don’t say how

  • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Cautiously assuming it’s a false positive, but LASIM is throwing some warnings from VirusTotal for the Windows version, saying it’s a password stealer (VHO:Trojan-PSW.Win32.Agent.gen). Given the nature of what it does, I can understand it being flagged. Nothing when scanned directly with AV. Figured it was worth at least mentioning.