Move lemmy subscriptions to another instance

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

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Hopefully in future this is built in to the software. Ideally you'd be able to download a JSON/XML file from your settings page for your settings/subscribed communities then upload them to a different instance similar to how it works with Piped instances, for example.
- mastodon also has this feature built in and i would love to see it come to lemmy
- It's currently being worked on as a native function of Lemmy
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3480

Hey, author of LASIM here if people have any questions!
Just so people know it does save everything to a JSON file when you click "download" so you can absolutely upload to multiple accounts or keep it as a backup.

Thanks for posting this, it's something I've been looking for. Incidentally, what happened with vlemmy? Somehow, I havent seen anything about it.

What is the vlemmy situation?
- it went offline and no one really knows what’s going on
  
  That is very unfortunate did not hear about it I just use Lemmy.world.
  
  I think it may be too late to follow your advice
- https://feddit.nl/post/458654
  This is the largest post about it I know about. Basically it went down (disappeared? Not clear) yesterday and it’s a bit weird.

This sort of stuff is crucial and needs to be built in.
Most instances are one user's whim away from going away. This isn't a problem as long as clients back things up and migration is easy. But, that doesn't happen right now.
Guarantee we'll see some big news at points in the future when a big instance goes down because the owner died or just lost interest.
Again, these are easily overcome, but they are issues right now.

This is the first I've heard of LASIM, love that it copies blocks as well. I've been using lemmy-migrate and I don't think there's any options for block lists but otherwise it works really well across multiple accounts

Block Community lists, too!

Thanks @esty@lemmy.ca ! The export worked well (ran LASIM on Windows), and the JSON file contains my followed communities and profile settings. Wish I had this prior to the Vlemmy outage 🤕

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- LASIM definitely does not - it's designed for desktop and written rust, so not easily portable to iOS/Android.
  Doesn't look like lemmy-migrate would either - it's a python script - unless there's a mobile python interpreter app or something.
  
  iOS probably not but I think you could run python stuff in termux for android
  
  💀

the former's honestly a godsend in setting up alt accounts
- ya fr i used it to copy settings to shitjustworks and lemmee, i don’t think my instance is going anywhere any time soon but ya can never be too careful

Much appreciated post, thanks!

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