How can I migrate all my likes, community subscriptions, posts, comments etc to another instance?

Is this even currently possible?

Thanks for reading

  • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    There’s an ‘Import/export settings’ feature in your profile. It’ll move your subscribtions and blocks but not comments, likes and such. Just your user settings.

  • eldavi
    2·
    2 hours ago

    i switched instances without bothering to migrate and i’m wondering why you want to migrate anything.

      • eldavi
        1·
        54 minutes ago

        i had a similar thought and i think not trying to treat lemmy like it’s reddit is beneficial here; or at least to me.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
    28·
    6 hours ago

    Migrating or moving an account is not part of ActivityPub. Mastodon extended the protocol to have a move activity.

    Unless Lemmy devs come up with something similar and extend the protocol, there is no way to properly move/migrate the account to another instance. The current solution is to create a new account on your desired instance and then export the data on your old instance and import it on your new instance and leave a note in your bio for old instance/account[1]

    Start here for details on this. According to the devs this would be nice to have but is of very low priority.

    1. ignoring the fact that you need to re-subscruibe to communities with manual approval and losing all your comments and posts history as well as all private messaging history and contacts. ↩︎

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      6 hours ago

      re-subscruibe to communities with manual approval

      Are they that common? I usually find the feature used to lock inactive communities

      losing all your comments and posts history

      They are not lost, they are still there, and people know they are yours if you post your new account on your old account bio.

      private messaging history and contacts.

      Lemmy shouldn’t be used for messaging, that’s why you can show your Matrix account in your profile

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
        2·
        1 hour ago

        losing all your comments and posts history

        They are not lost, they are still there

        Yes, they’re there, in the old account on the old instance, and not here, where the new account on the new instance is.

        Lemmy shouldn’t be used for messaging

        That is entirely not the point. (Also: messaging on Lemy and instant messaging have nothing in common and should not be confused.)

    • Twoafros@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Thanks. I wonder why this is a low priority. If the people attracted t the fediverse want decentralization and interoperability, it would make sense that many people would want to migrate from one instance to another as easily and smoothly as possible.

      Thanks again for the detailed answer

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
        12·
        6 hours ago

        To be honest, it takes two clicks in the settings to export and import the subscription list, you can then start using your new account as if it was the old one.

        I did it many times in the past, it works quite well.

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
          2·
          1 hour ago

          you can then start using your new account as if it was the old one.

          Except the things I mentioned.

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
    8·
    6 hours ago

    AfaIk, posts and comments cannot be exported.

    For the rest you may use the “export settings” function in the “personal settings” section on the webpage of your Lemmy instance (yet I don’t know what is actually exported).

    Alternatively, you may use one of the tools mentioned in this post (the post is in German, the linked webpages are in English): https://slrpnk.net/post/10923543