CMahaff @ CMahaff @lemmy.world

I made LASIM! https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

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Hey OP, I wrote a tool that does this if you are still looking for one: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Does profile settings, subscriptions, and blocks.

Maybe clear site data / cookies for lemmy.world in Firefox?

If you click on the login API call in Firefox, it should be returning you a token. I'd be curious if the other calls show that token being used, or an old one.

Could maybe be some kind of front-end bug where it's using your previous token for some reason?

(And don't post the tokens here - they could be used to hijack your account :) )

Thanks for spreading the word 👍

The devs have definitely said there will be an official way to backup your account and import into another at some point, but I don't think they've decided what exactly what would be like. Lots of possibilities with varying degrees of difficulty.

If vlemmy comes back up you can use this tool I made to pull down a list of subscriptions, blocks, etc. and if you want, copy all those to a new account:

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Obviously your comments, etc. are gone, but at least you can keep browsing uninterrupted from another instance.

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

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).

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

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!

For sure! The whole reason I made this was because I saw so many posts asking for a way to do this.

That said, it's obviously a stop-gap until the devs add an official way to do this via Lemmy itself, but the last time I saw them talk about that it was (understandably) pretty low on their priority list - and I'm not nearly comfortable enough in rust or databases to make a PR to Lemmy itself - at least not yet.

The latest Lemmy BE 0.18.1-rc9 supports this setting - but right now the front-end just doesn't let you set it yet.

Hopefully the front-end will be updated with it by the final release of 0.18.1!