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migrating instances (lemmy.world)

Is there a tool that makes it easy to migrate to a different lemmy instance? The idea is copying my subscriptions over to the new instance. Thanks.

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[-] teh_bishop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not that I’ve found. My favorite part of moving to a new instance is screenshotting the communities you’re in, going to the new instance and searching and … they don’t show up for some reason.

[-] Flashback956@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

They don't show up probably because that instance is so new nobody subbed to that community yet, hence the reason it can't find it.

[-] jrbaconcheese@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

If you search by the full URL of the sub and make sure that Search is set to “All” it will show up eventually. If you then subscribe, your instance will then be federated and start to receive info from that community but it does take a bit of time to get.

If you join a medium-sized but weeks-old instance then it is likely to already have been federated and you won’t have much of a headache.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

So the instances that individual users are subscribed to are what show up in your default instance feed? I thought the default feed for your instance was just which communities your instance set to show. So if someone is subbed to, say, underwater-needle-felting and they are on my instance, I will see underwater-needle-felting stuff on my main feed? Do those show up when I switch to subscribed instead of main?

[-] jrbaconcheese@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

You’ll see it if you search for it and in All, but it won’t be in your Local or Subscribe feed

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes to everything except the last part, if you switch to subscribed, you see your subscriptions.

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