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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    • BuelldozerEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      LASIM is similar and while it won’t run on iOS it will work on *Nix, Windows, and MacOS.

      • mhz (lemm.ee)English
        5•2 years ago

        Thanks for supporting linux, please consuder flatpak instead of making a binary per distro

  • NixEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Wow, great work! thank you!

  • @[email protected]English
    22•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      10•2 years ago

      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?

      • candyman337English
        7•2 years ago

        Same thing happened to me, it seemed like it didn’t do it when I had just two accounts, but it did do it when I had 3.

        Not sure if it has anything to do with certain communities not being federated to the other instances

      • CaptainBlagbirdEnglish
        8•2 years ago

        Please add a logging functionality, so that even if something like that would happen in the future because of some special case bug, it would still be possible to figure out which subscriptions were removed.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        Here is everything I can remember doing:

        1. Downloaded the apk

        2. Installed and opened the program

        3. Allowed notifications

        4. Input my four instances: lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.basedcount.com, and lemmy.ml

        5. 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)

        6. 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.

        7. I disabled notifications because they were starting to feel spammy.

        8. 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!

    • SpziEnglish
      13•2 years ago

      Seriously, would it be possible to integrate Lemmy Handshake into Lemmy source code?

      I feel this should be part of the core package.

      • BuelldozerEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        LASIM is similar and while it won’t run on iOS it will work on *Nix, Windows, and MacOS.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 years ago

          Unfortunately I’m basically 99% mobile only in my personal life, and while I could drag out my laptop for this it would just be hella nice to have an iOS app for the function. Thank you for the think, though!

  • CosmicSploogeDrizzleEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    How does this handle cases where no subscribers from an instance have subscribed to an external community yet? Other migration tools I have used require these to be added manually. Does yours automate this process?

    Edit: any plans to add to FDroid?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

        Didn’t get a chance to look at how your app works under the hood, but for LASIM I look up the community by name to get the ID and then call thr subscribe API. The former did seem to trigger the Lemmy instance to “learn” about the community, but it takes awhile, and there is no way to know when it has learned it other than to retry looking it up a few times.

      • CosmicSploogeDrizzleEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        Maybe grouping these communities into a list and then linking to them manually for users to click though and sub would be a good idea.