Hi, I’m not self hosting, but I’ve realised I’ve spent a decent amount of time on this social media, and written a few things I may want to revisit in the future.
I was wondering if there was a way to “back up” my account, so if something happened to my host instance, I would still be able to have a copy of the comments and posts I made :).
I’m not expecting to be able to “transfer” my account to a new one, but have a backup of posts and comments for personal storage, having a copy on my harddrive.
Wondering about Lemmy specifically. I know there’s an export option for settings though.
I recently had to move, because my previous instance is shutting down. I got to keep all of my settings and the communities I follow. It also kept blocked accounts and communities, but not blocked instances.
ETA: Comments were not transferred and I’m assuming posts won’t be either.
Yeah, I know that’s not possible as of now. Just wondering if there is a simpler way to get a copy of my comments and posts than using a web scraper.
That definitely sounds like a feature that should be added. I remember when you couldn’t even export your subscriptions.
I was editing my comment as you were responding. Check the issue on GitHub I linked in the edit, and maybe thumbs it up for visibility. One of the commenters mentions using a third-party tool but I’m not sure the one they linked to can grab posts. In theory another one might exist to dump your post data.
Thanks that’s helpful. I’ll wait it out I guess as I’m not upto tinkering with the API right now.