• flicker
    41•1 month ago

    Fuuuuuck I have to change instances again…

    Anybody got a recommendation?

      • flicker
        17•1 month ago

        Just looked it over and immediately applied. Big fan of the vibe. Looking forward to adding my cultural and biological distinctness to your own.

        • @[email protected]
          16•1 month ago

          Looking forward to adding my cultural and biological distinctness to your own.

          Buddy you gotta at least take me to dinner first.

        • @M600
          2•1 month ago

          Is there a way to quickly migrate communities you follow?

          • AwesomeLowlanderOP
            7•1 month ago

            Yes, you can export your settings (including subscriptions) from your settings panel in the Web UI

            • @M600
              1•1 month ago

              That’s awesome!

          • flicker
            2•1 month ago

            Not that I can see.

            • AwesomeLowlanderOP
              6•1 month ago

              Yes, you can export your settings (including subscriptions) from your settings panel in the Web UI

      • @inv3r510n
        2•1 month ago

        How do you migrate? So sick of the libs of .world

        • ProdigalFrogEnglish
          3•1 month ago

          in your settings page is an export button, which lets you download your subscriptions and block list, which you can then import into a new Lemmy account on a new instance.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 month ago

          You just make an account on another instance. I think there is a way you can migrate sub/block lists and such but I didn’t bother so I couldn’t tell you how.

      • flicker
        8•1 month ago

        Thanks. I’m going to check them both out.

      • nek0d3r
        4•1 month ago

        I had been thinking about moving to dbzero for a while. Might see if I can move my data tomorrow!

    • @someacnt_
      6•1 month ago

      Commenting here to remind myself to possibly migrate

        • @Benjaben
          15•1 month ago

          My friend. Between this and the book links above, you are dropping the hits out here lol. Thank you!

          If you feel like going for a hat trick - happen to have a link to a straight forward and non-“newsy” copy of the video?

        • Draconic NEO
          0•1 month ago

          That’ll be pretty useless if most of their communities are lemmy.world communities, it’s not a good idea to divorce an instance but still participate and be dependent on their communities, unless you’re willing to obfuscate your activity with alts that aren’t connected to you. Otherwise they’ll just ban you from those communities anyway.

          Also be warned, it doesn’t take your post history, or even saved posts with you, if you want saved posts you have to bring them manually, and you can’t take post history with you at all.

          • Blaze (he/him)English
            8•1 month ago

            Also be warned, it doesn’t take your post history, or even saved posts with you, if you want saved posts you have to bring them manually, and you can’t take post history with you at all

            Probably not a big deal for the majority of people. Just link your old profile in your bio if you want to keep your “reputation”

            • @[email protected]English
              1•1 month ago

              Also a “reputation” on the internet is worth the paper it’s printed on.

              Which is to say no one prints these things.

              • Blaze (he/him)English
                1•1 month ago

                Reputation can just be “recognized”. I remember probably between 25 and 50 usernames here, most of them for good reasons, it’s good to be able to recognize them even if they move instances

            • Draconic NEO
              0•1 month ago

              Saved posts will probably be a bigger deal since people saved them for a reason.

              Also I did mention bringing history with you because spiteful admins can wash your history away when you can’t bring it with you. If you could claim and reassigned ownership of the federated posts and comments they’d only be able to wash it away from the communities they moderate.

              • Blaze (he/him)English
                1•1 month ago

                Saved posts will probably be a bigger deal since people saved them for a reason.

                How many saved posts do people have on average?

                • Draconic NEO
                  0•1 month ago

                  I’m not sure, I know that on this account I have over 100. On Lemmy.world I probably have way more. I have 40 on pawb.social. I have a lot here though. Much less on the others since I use those accounts less but I still have a handful on all the others.