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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
FUCKER thanks you for this application.
FUCKER good to know you liked!
is the fucker some kind of emoji I'm missing or are you guys just being friendly
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 😅
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.
That logo is trippy
Thank you for this, worked like a charm!
Wow, great to know!
Amazing! You have just filled the biggest crevice of Lemmy! Thank you!!
Do you accept PRs? I’d love to setup an iOS build for this
Of course, I'd love iOS support but I don't have iphone
Beware!
This unsubscribed me from twenty+ communities - it first tried to subscribe all of my accounts to all of the communities of my largest instance. 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:
Downloaded the apk
Installed and opened the program
Allowed notifications
Input my four instances: lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.basedcount.com, and lemmy.ml
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)
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.
I disabled notifications because they were starting to feel spammy.
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!
Any plan on Mac and Linux version soon?
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.
Wow, great work! thank you!
Great job! That's an excellent way to spread out.
Ooh syncs saved posts as well! Definitely downloading this
Edit: Ah that's not ready yet. Still very cool
Soon it will sync, I didn't have much time last weekend
This is REALLY cool and helpful. I just tried it with the 3 accounts I have and it worked flawlessly.
Only suggestion would be to have the app check a servers defederated list and disregard any communities that you cannot subscribe too. This would prevent a lot of errors that happen when going through the sync. This is pretty minor as the app does seem to skip the community after the error but I suspect it would be a little faster if it just rejectected the community via internal software. Some users who are not aware of defederated communities may get confused by the errors as well.
Maybe this isn't very realistic? If it isn't, never mind. :)
I'm thinking about how to get rid of those errors, this might the solution but I think there isn't a way to check the list of defederated instances, one thing I'll implement soon is to expire synchronization tries after x days so the list won't grow forever
Glad the app helped you
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
My company blocks lemmy.zip on WiFi, but lets lemmy.world through. So I tried to be on something other than lemmy.world, but still use it about half the time.
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?
I'm not sure, I had issues syncing some communities maybe this was the case
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.
I don't have any backup accounts to make use of this, but this is a great tool!
Okay, I'm not technologically illiterate, but I can't figure out how to get this to run on my Windows laptop. I got to the link, but I don't see what to download. Any help?
I'll provide the .exe tomorrow, you can download the source and compile to windows also but you would need to install flutter which is a pain in the ass
I'm getting error : unable to get user data
Hmm, weird which instance? Lemmy.world was offline earlier
Tried it with lemmy.world and lemdro.id. same error in both cases. Update : It now works for some reason.