Psythik@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoWhat happens to my account if the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance? message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down12
arrow-up186arrow-down1message-squareWhat happens to my account if the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance? Psythik@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squarecrummysocks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoTake regular backups of your subscriptions, saved comments and posts and blocked communities and users
minus-squareCheshireSnake@lemdit.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agohttps://github.com/CMahaff/lasim Iirc, it doesn’t include saved posts/comments yet (correct me if I’m wrong) as well as your original account’s post/comment history.
minus-squarekratoz29@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIs LASIM able to do this? I don’t know where it stores the database file.
minus-squarefreamon@endlesstalk.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt stores it as a JSON in the same directory as the executable.
minus-squareCheshireSnake@lemdit.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYes. It downloads a json file. For me, it went straight to my desktop.
minus-squarekratoz29@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agolol, I didn’t check on desktop, probably is there haha. But I didn’t know it saved saved posts and comments.
Take regular backups of your subscriptions, saved comments and posts and blocked communities and users
How would one go about it?
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Iirc, it doesn’t include saved posts/comments yet (correct me if I’m wrong) as well as your original account’s post/comment history.
Is LASIM able to do this? I don’t know where it stores the database file.
It stores it as a JSON in the same directory as the executable.
Yes. It downloads a json file. For me, it went straight to my desktop.
lol, I didn’t check on desktop, probably is there haha.
But I didn’t know it saved saved posts and comments.