What's the best way to move instances?
from Inkstainthebat@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 2025 00:14
https://lemmy.world/post/26901779
from Inkstainthebat@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 2025 00:14
https://lemmy.world/post/26901779
So I realized that signing up on lemmy.world may not have been the best option for me, so I’m wondering what the best way to move instances (I’d like to move to pawb.social or lemmy.blahaj.zone) for my account would be I’m most worried about leaving everything I made on this account behind forever, but I’ve seen online that there’s no way to actually move your account to another instance, so what do you guys suggest the best procedure is?
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In your bio on old profile set a link to your new profile, that’s the only way currently. Then set up a script that migrates your subscription list to the new account.
No need for that, you can export your subscriptions and settings on your profile page.
Ah, didn’t know, that must be new(ish).
Somewhere in your profile settings there's an export. It won't export your posts, just which communities you follow and who you've blocked, etc. Import those into your new account on the new instance.
What? I had no idea! I manually migrated my subscriptions over when I switched!
It was hard for me, so I vote everyone must manually do it, for character building or some such bullshit.
Ah the “We didn’t build a better world for our children for the benefit of the goddamn kids” attitude. My country is currently dying of that.
I’m stealing that quote, that’s fuckin fantastic. If you came up with that, kudos
Perfect idea!
Let’s improve the character building by requiring people to first setup their own Lemmy instance before they can join a larger one.
That surely will improve the amount of users here 😇
Banger instance btw
Thank you! Had the domain for a while, and now found the perfect use case for it :D
D:
It wasn’t always an option - around the time of the first big mass migration of Reddit users it wasn’t something you could do. I actually wrote a tool at that time that could automate the manual action of re-subscribing / re-blocking everything.
But yeah, these days it’s a feature of Lemmy itself, which is great because it’s much more efficient than trying to do things client-side.
hahhaahh.
Relevant discussion: lemmy.world/post/186554
Looks like that thread is from before they added the data import/export feature.
Just sign up, that's what I did
Make the account
Export your subscriptions/saved/other settings in the lemmy settings. Then import that on the new account.
I’m curious why you’d like to move away from .world? I’m mostly lazy, but I also have not found another instance that even seems worth the effort.
Main reason is that imo, lemmy.world is already quite big, and smaller communities need more support/users Aside from that, It would also say more about me!