How can I migrate all my likes, community subscriptions, posts, comments etc to another instance?

Is this even currently possible?

Thanks for reading

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    20·
    22 days ago

    Migrating or moving an account is not part of ActivityPub. Mastodon extended the protocol to have a move activity.

    Unless Lemmy devs come up with something similar and extend the protocol, there is no way to properly move/migrate the account to another instance. The current solution is to create a new account on your desired instance and then export the data on your old instance and import it on your new instance and leave a note in your bio for old instance/account[1]

    Start here for details on this. According to the devs this would be nice to have but is of very low priority.

    1. ignoring the fact that you need to re-subscruibe to communities with manual approval and losing all your comments and posts history as well as all private messaging history and contacts. ↩︎

    • Twoafros@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      22 days ago

      Thanks. I wonder why this is a low priority. If the people attracted t the fediverse want decentralization and interoperability, it would make sense that many people would want to migrate from one instance to another as easily and smoothly as possible.

      Thanks again for the detailed answer

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
    2·
    22 days ago

    i switched instances without bothering to migrate and i’m wondering why you want to migrate anything.