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Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances.

After seeing the work someone else did with migrating your subscriptions across accounts. I took their code and expanded upon it to fully synchronize your Lemmy instance accounts.

Feel free to give it a try. It's been useful for me to have accounts in multiple instances with the instability problems right now from the big influx of users.

Let me know what you think. Hopefully it can help a few people.

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  • Hey if you’re interested in offering this as a web app of sorts reach out to me. I’m glad to provide hosting if you want. I’d also be interested in integrating with the app we are working on Memmy.

  • If only I had found this yesterday when I did everything by hand. Great to see this nevertheless!

    • Came here to say this! But still - thank you! I have a feeling it will be invaluable, at least in the short term.

  • I'm getting a TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType' when I do:

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    git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
    cd lemmy_account_sync/
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
    nano src/myconfig.ini
    python3 src/lemmy_sync.py
    
    
      

    I've confirmed that my [Main Account] and [Account 2] details are correct in myconfig.ini, but beyond that I don't really know what I'm doing.

    • undefined> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |

      the | syntax to indicate multiple types was introduced in Python 3.10. It looks like you are using a an older Python version.

      • That was it exactly. Thank you.

        This was a journey, so I'm documenting it here for anyone who might run into a similar situation.

        I'm using a Chromebook with Linux enabled.

        To confirm my version of Python I ran python --version:

        Python 3.9.2

        OK! Getting somewhere. So I have to check what distribution of Linux is installed with grep '^PRETTY_NAME' /etc/os-release

        PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"

        Alright. Google says if I want to upgrade Python on Debian 11 I have to compile it from source. Yikes! But, wait, there's a PPA - Yay! But the PPA is for Ubuntu - Boo.

        There isn't an active community for ChromeOS on Lemmy yet, but that other website has directions for replacing Debian with Ubuntu.

        I'm lazy so I'm not doing that. I'm just going to spin up a temporary Ubuntu container that I can delete later, so my directions are much simpler:

        Ctr-Alt-T to enter crosh, the ChromeOS developer shell.

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        vmc start termina
        lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 ubuntu
        lxc exec ubuntu -- bash
        apt update && apt -y upgrade
        add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
        apt update
        apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-venv
        python3.11 -m ensurepip
        git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
        cd lemmy_account_sync/
        pip3.11 install -r requirements.txt
        cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
        nano src/myconfig.ini
        python3.11 src/lemmy_sync.py
        
          

        Success! I had to escape some special characters in my passwords, but that's easily Google-able.

        I'll be keeping the container around for a little while to do some periodic syncs. Then I'll remove it using crosh.

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        vmc start termina
        lxc delete ubuntu --force
        
        
          
  • Just curious, will this script work if you have 2FA enabled on your Lemmy accounts?

    • Sorry for the delay in getting back.

      Currently it will not work with 2FA enabled. However, looking at the login post requirements I just need to add that as an option to put in the config.

      I'll reply to this comment again when I get something put together. I'll add it to the GitHub issues list for tracking as well.

      However, could you recommend an instance that uses 2FA for login so I can make an account to test it? I see the field in my current instances but would like something fresh to try it on.

      • Thanks for the reply! I have accounts on lemm.ee and lemmy.world that use 2FA. Also have one with lemmy.sdf.org, but that one requires account creation approval.

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