So as the title states, what are the benefits and downsides to each? On one hand, subscribing all from one instance (i.e this one), is most convinient, but on the other hand, if the instance goes offline / shuts down etc then I’m SOOL.
What would be the easiest way to transfer subscriptions across instances?
One annoying thing I have realized is that while a small instance is unlikely to be defederated from anyone thus giving you the most access to the fed, you have to “unlock” a lot of communities by searching for them as they are not seen before anyone attempts to interact with them. Then again if it did do it automatically I would have to filter out loli by community which would be even more annoying.
So there’s the hidden downside to something that seemingly only has upsides at a surface level.
I was thinking about making a bot or fake user to subscribe or search a bunch of communities so they’d populate all on my instance but not be in my subscriptions so I could filter them if needed
I was thinking of this but I only really mess around with stuff like leetcode at most, but even then you just end up having to filter just as many other communities manually which is basically the same problem in reverse. Also this is an issue with getting many instances loaded up on a single small one, but how do you populate your small instance on a hundred different instances?
I think the most sensible solution to all of this would be an improvement of the communities directory, although if you wanted a dumb quick universal solution just having said bot operating in the background on all instances as default would solve it.
Ya id have to limit it to certain number of users or something. But as far as filtering I’d just click my own subscriptions. This would just to pull other instances into the all feed since it needs a user to subscribe from your instance to start getting updates.
But ya a better discoverability in Lemmy itself would be nice
[email protected] created a bookmarklet to help scrape subscribed communities, but I haven’t tried it yet:
Redundancy is your friend, always.
Afaik, there’s no way to transfer subscriptions. You have to do it manually.
I’m hoping a tool will be made soon. But yes, in the meantime there no reason not to make multiple accts just in case.
Seems like it would be a pretty simple tool to make. It merely has to access the API on one instance to log in and gather all of your subscriptions, and then log into the other and subscribe to them all.
Someone’s actually made one now but I haven’t tried it.
That’s what I was thinking too, creating a couple more accounts purely out of redundancy. Fair, hopefully maybe there will be a way to export subscriptions in the future.
Someone’s made one but I haven’t tested it.
Best do it early while you can still get the same username…
I suspect there will be.
I’ve been using one account for browsing nsfw content and then completely blocking all nsfw on the other.
I’d consider having a spare account on hand as a backup for if your instance is down for maintenance or something.
The way I do it is host my own Lemmy instance, federate with the most popular instances and then subscribe to whatever I like from there. It does require a bit of technical skills tho, so not for everyone I guess.
Might give it a try, I’m in IT so it shouldn’t be too difficult. Would be a fun project
I’m considering making an other account but for kbin. For now this instance is enough, but it might be a good idea to have a backup
