The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it’s opensource and free, currently working in android and windows.
It’s in homologation now and anyone can test, any feedbacks are welcome as always.
If you find any bugs please report
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Beware!
This unsubscribed me from twenty+ communities on all of my instances. It first tried to subscribe all of my accounts to all of the communities of my largest instance, which is what I wanted it to do. One instance failed to sub to 20+ communities, which was fine, as it was a smaller instance.
Ten minutes later, however, I got a notification that it had unsubscribed all of my other instances from those communities as well. It took me about an hour to figure out most of the ones that had been lost, and even now I think I’m missing a few.
I’m sorry it happened, it definitely should not do it, could you describe the steps you made to trigger this behavior? So I can patch it ASAP?
Here is everything I can remember doing:
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Downloaded the apk
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Installed and opened the program
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Allowed notifications
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Input my four instances: lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.basedcount.com, and lemmy.ml
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Hit “sync” and watched them sync. Three of these instances had almost the same number of communities (around 120), but one had none whatsoever. It took two or three minutes for that instance (basedcount) to sync all of the communities, and in the end, it wasn’t able to subscribe to about 20 of them for some reason. (maybe because nobody had ever gone to/searched for those communities from that instance before - I’ve heard this can lead to access problems, but you’d probably know more about that than I would)
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About five minutes later, I got couple of notifications saying that 6(-ish) communities had been synced and that 18(-ish) had been unsubscribed across my instances. This confused me, so I checked my instance list and saw that all three of my instances with around 120 communities now had around 95.
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I disabled notifications because they were starting to feel spammy.
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I looked at the notification again and realized what had actually happened. I immediately uninstalled the program and resubscribed to as many communities as I could on lemm.ee, my main account.
Sorry this is so long - I hope it helps!
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Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working for accounts with 2FA. Had to disable it to get the job done.
Vish, this is really an issue, I’ll add it to issues so I can check if it’s possible to fix later
Awesome to hear. It has already been useful for me, just so I could move my subscriptions to another instance, because the one I’m on has been under fire lately.
This should be in the lemmy code. Federate out accounts.
Seriously, would it be possible to integrate Lemmy Handshake into Lemmy source code?
I feel this should be part of the core package.
Maybe now people can finally spread out… It’s just sad to see everyone on Lemmy.world as if it was the new Gmail or something.
One of the main reasons I did it, so people can spread across instances
Sorry I am new to lemmy and fediverse concept.
How is it different from an app like Connect?
This synchronizes subscribed communities between instances if you have accounts on more than one instance. Connect is for browsing and posting.
I dont get it because I have accounts on several instances. I can add them into Connect and it seems I can see post from all my instances.
In case you’re still wondering. This app can take all your subscriptions from lemm.ee and copy them to another instance. When you switch to that instance and go to your subscribed everything should be on the second instance.
This way you don’t have to subscribe manually on multiple instances. I believe blocks will be added as well.
ok ! Thank you!
And yes I still had no clue.
But, I still don’t understand something so I will take my exemple.
- I created my first account on Lemmy world.
- Because they decided to censor piracy they weren’t anymore in line with my philosophy (I’m not pro piracy, I’m against arbitrary censorship)
- So I created a second account on Lemm.ee after learning about their principles.
- From there I resubscribed to my subs and I never feel the need to go back to Lemmy world.
My conclusion is there’s probably something I still don’t understand about the fediverse.
If you find the least censored instance, why would you create account on other or multiples instances?
What do I risk missing by staying on an instance without ever switching?
Please send help lol
Ps : Sorry for my bad English
This app would have done step 4 without you having to do it yourself.
As for why to switch instances. It’s a matter of preference. The example you gave is a good reason. Obviously if your instance closes you would have to move so it’s nice to have a backup just in case
Ok thanks for your reply.
Probably not a big deal but your username autopopulates the login field.
Holy shit I forgot to take it out lol, thanks for the reminder
I thought it was a feature lol
This would be way too egocentric 😅
Any plan on Mac and Linux version soon?
LASIM is similar and while it won’t run on iOS it will work on *Nix, Windows, and MacOS.
Thank you for this, worked like a charm!
