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I am eventually going to host my own instance but for now just enjoying the free ride on Lemmy.world.

If I host my own instance is there a way to transfer this account over?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feature will come with 0.19 version officially as I know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how this will work? is there anywhere I can read about this? Will I be able to move from one instance to another? or just settings or posts etc?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mmmm, Machu Picchu, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No official way, but you can sync the details across with lasim or similar tool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You lose your internet points though right?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that's a concern for you I'd recommend some self reflection.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not a concern, just worth noting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you take a look at my opinion score, you’ll see that my opinion is worth a lot because I had a lot of opinions in the past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like that lemmy doesn't show an aggregate on the webui.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I had a lot of opinions

Is that curable?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What lasim does is allow you download your account settings. That's all. So your subscriptions, block lists etc. It doesn't allow you to transfer posts/comments so yes, your points will be zero on your new account.

If you admin a Community, you can't transfer that automatically either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy doesn't display your score anyways except for individual posts/messages. Atleast not the web view.

I truly don't get why it matters. On reddit I made a new account once a year or so anyways and on Lemmy I've got like 6 of these. I never paid any attention to my or anyone else's karma either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, I agree. The only possible argument in its favour is to tackle spam but even that's pretty easy to game.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I use Lemmy Handshake, an android application which keeps them in sync as wel!