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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] CMahaff@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago

Just gonna name-drop the tool I made to do this :) https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

It's only been out a few days, let me know if you have any issues!

[-] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I liked .world but no way will I let meta in.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for making this!

[-] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Awesome! I was hoping this would be possible. I plan to host my own instance hobbit.world and would need to migrate everything.

Also, I'll defederate any corporate instances. No need to encourage bad actors.

[-] quickpen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

If you’re creating an instance that will not federate with corporate instances, then I would love to join.

[-] smoysauce@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for this! Just gave this a try, downloaded from .world just fine, but uploading to .ml gives this error: ERROR: Failed Login - HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/login)

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

That usually means wrong username/password! But if you're sure, I can make an account on lemmy.ml and give it a shot.

[-] smoysauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the feedback. The username and password are indeed correct. I copied and pasted from Bitwarden and used the exact same ones to login to the lemmy.ml site. I do wonder if there is some sort of anti-bot measures that Colonel Sanders mentioned below.

Also: I tried just my username vs email but neither worked and I also don't have MFA enabled yet. Super weird.

EDIT: opened an issue on Github: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/issues/4

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

I have a fix! Merging the branch and dropping a new release shortly. Thanks for reporting this!

[-] smoysauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Working great. Thanks for the quick fix!

[-] ColonelSanders@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not very tech savvy when it comes to this, but would it have anything to do with the anti-bot stuff that lemmy.ml has implemented in the sign-up process? You now have to answer a few questions and basically write your reason for making an account before it lets you even submit the request for review.

[-] CMahaff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To use the tool you need to make your new account first manually - then you can port over your settings with the tool - so it shouldn't be affected by this.

So no, lemmy.ml shouldn't be blocking it, unless it's got something enabled to disable all API logins - though I would think that would break everything (i.e. apps).