cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10823519
So I wrote a little web app that allows a user to move their user data, like settings and subscribed/banned communities, from one account/instance to another.
It runs completely client-side, but is hosted on GitHub for the moment. Maybe it’ll be of some use!
Features:
- Don’t trust me or GitHub? Clone the project and host it yourself or run it locally (Example in Wiki)
- Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
- Download user data as a text file
- Modify user data, e.g. to add or remove followed users/communites (Example in Wiki)
- “display_name”
- “bio”
- “avatar”
- “banner”
- “matrix_id”
- “bot_account”
- “settings”
- “followed_communities”
- “saved_posts”
- “saved_comments”
- “blocked_communities”
- “blocked_users”
- “blocked_instances”
- Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance
The export/import functionality is, yes. This implementation uses the same API endpoints, but the main reason for this existing:
An instance I was on slowly died, starting with the frontend (default web UI). At least at the time, no client implemented the export/import functionality, so I wrote a simple script in Bash to download the user data, if the backend still works. Running a script can still be a challenge to some users, so I wrote a web application with the same functionality. It’s a bit redundant if we’re talking about regularly working instances, but can be of use if the frontend isn’t available for some reason.
Interesting. I guess it can be useful for feddit.de (now feddit.org) users