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"Backup" your fedi account, when not self hosting? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I recently had to move, because my previous instance is shutting down. I got to keep all of my settings and the commubities 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That definitely sounds like a feature that should be added. I remember when you couldn’t even export your subscriptions.