@Psythik@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • edit-211 months 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-square24fedilinkarrow-up188
arrow-up188message-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-211 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-square@crummysocks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•11 months agoTake regular backups of your subscriptions, saved comments and posts and blocked communities and users
minus-square@CheshireSnake@lemdit.comlinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months 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-squarekratoz29linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoIs LASIM able to do this? I don’t know where it stores the database file.
minus-square@CheshireSnake@lemdit.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoYes. It downloads a json file. For me, it went straight to my desktop.
minus-squarekratoz29linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agolol, I didn’t check on desktop, probably is there haha. But I didn’t know it saved saved posts and comments.
minus-squarefreamonlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoIt stores it as a JSON in the same directory as the executable.
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.
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.
It stores it as a JSON in the same directory as the executable.