- Create an account on the server you want to migrate to.
- Run LASIM, enter your old account credentials, and hit "Download". Your information is saved to a local file.
- In LASIM, hit the Upload tab, then enter your new account credentials and hit "Upload".
- The local file is used to update your new account's blocked users, blocked communities, followed communities, and most profile settings.
- That's it!
- The following profile settings are not modified by LASIM: your avatar image, your banner image, your display name, your email, your bio, your Matrix user, and your 2-Factor token
- All other profile settings will match your old account
- LASIM is otherwise additive - it will add any blocked users, blocked communities, and/or followed communities present in your old account, but not in your new account, but will NOT delete any blocked users, blocked communities, and/or followed communities already present in your new account
- LASIM will automatically detect if your new account already has some of the blocked users, blocked communities, and/or followed communities and will not re-issue those API calls
- LASIM should respect the rate limits set by your instance owner, but this has not been thoroughly tested
- LASIM will skip entries that fail to apply - re-run LASIM to try these entries again
- LASIM has to make numerous API calls to migrate everything - be patient
- This should go without saying, but obviously both your new and old accounts are still distinct - LASIM simply makes it easier to move from one to the other
- This is alpha software and should be treated as such - always read the log output to verify there were no errors during transfer, and always confirm your new account's settings in the web UI. If you have issues, write a bug here on Github!
- Versions of LASIM only target specific Lemmy BE API versions, which are currently changing rapidly. See the Version Support table.
- As long as the "Profile Version" is the same between LASIM versions, it is possible to use different LASIM versions together to target Lemmy servers running different incompatible API versions.
- At time of writing there is planned support, but no code written, to support migration from older Profile Versions to newer ones.
- At time of writing LASIM does not support 2-Factor authentication, but it is on the road-map!
- Mac OS X Builds are available thanks to Github Actions, but I cannot test these builds myself.
| LASIM Version | LASIM Profile Version | Supported Lemmy BE API Version |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1.* | 1 | 0.18.1 (rc.9+) |