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Backup Lemmy account (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is kind of a question and conformation. Is there a way to backup a lemmy account from one instance and in case some thing happens, restore that user in another (with all the posts, likes, etc) ? I read that they were working on cross instance accounts , but is there a workaround meanwhile? Do we know the status of this implementation?

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[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy 0.19.0 and higher have an export button in the web interface settings that'll back up most of the stuff on your account. If your instance isn't on that version yet, you'll have to wait for the admins to upgrade.

I used this to migrate my account from my old instance - it carries over your subscriptions, blocked communities, blocked users, saved posts, saved comments, display name, profile description, and theme applied 👌

Pretty much everything you'd want, except your own posts and your own comments, but those don't matter to me too much.

People on lemmy.world (running lemmy 0.18.5) will need to use something else to migrate their account, like lasim: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Pretty much everything you'd want, except your own posts and your own comments, but those don't matter to me too much.

In a perfect world, you could migrate all this content and keep your points and comments.

Unfortunately, this would be abused so hard. We would have people setting up private instances, faking their databases and creating accounts with a million Karma and huge comment histories. Then taking those personas and importing them onto legit instances.

This isn't an issue with today's Lemmy. But down the track if Lemmy is the size of Reddit, scammers and spammers would be doing this to, well scam and spam.

I wish we could just trust everyone. That sounds like a nicer world.