Backup your lemmy communities to another instance
Quick guide on how to use this python script (on Windows) to copy subscribed communities to another account. 1. Install Python [https://www.python.org/downloads/]. 2. Go to repo page [https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate]. Click Code >> Download ZIP 3. Extract the ZIP file 4. Open the extracted ...
Remember that lemmy instances are run by volunteers not companies so there may be some risk in a lemmy instance closing down and you losing your account.
Your posts will still exist as they have been federated to the other instances at large but one annoying thing would be losing all your subscribed communities.
When you have a nice account setup, you should stay safe by creating another account on another instance as a backup and following this post on how to have it subscribe to all your communities for you.
Alternatively you can subscribe manually but it can take a long time if you subscribe to a lot.
Either way having a backup account would be good practice. If this is your main account here that is fine and so long as you have another account elsewhere on another lemmy instance with the same communities subscribed in the event of a server going dark it wont affect you.
Here is the post with instructions for windows : https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/343976
This is whats kind of not clear to me. While its clear what the benefit is for lemmy.world or some instance you move from, its less clear what the benefit for the individual moving is such as myself. I have more risk, its a hassle, the smaller server might itself get overloaded or break. Sometimes it feels ‘safer in numbers’. Unsure. Feels like I would be best off if everyone else moved and took on the risk while I stayed and reaped the benefits of them reducing the load rather than me doing it.
Interesting. Too late as I resubscribed already but maybe will help others hopefully.
Kind of a big drawback and not the original impression I got when told all instances are federated so its the same everywhere and doesnt matter….
Switching might benefit lemmy.world but it was inconvenient and didnt benefit me much. The content is the same after resubbing but was a hassle. Unclear if I gained much personally doing it.
I joined https://lemmy.myserv.one but I have to resubscribe to all my communities? How can you avoid this and have it automatic?