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Thanks for spreading the word about LASIM!
Just letting you know that today I finished an update that adds upload options, including an option you can turn on to "sync removals", which kindof achieves this.
It may not be the right tool for every scenario though - turning it on basically means that whatever account you upload too will end up identical to the one you downloaded by following/unfollowing and blocking/unblocking as needed. But if you've got new follows, blocks, etc. spread across several accounts you wouldn't want to turn it on or you'd lose all the changes on the accounts except for whichever one you downloaded.
The option works better in scenarios where you're mostly using a Main account, and just trying to keep the Alt accounts in sync with whatever the Main account does.
How to use lasim? I downloaded lasim_windows.zip from github which contains an exe file. Is this the file I need to use? I want to create a back up account. How to find out which instances are supported? Also, how does this work? Will the backup account automatically get subscribed to all communities?
Yep, if you are on Windows just extract that .exe somewhere and then run it.
The README is displayed underneath the screenshots on the link to LASIM above. It tells you how to run it. See "How it Works".
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim#how-it-works
The latest version supports any Lemmy 0.18.3 instance. You can see which version a Lemmy instance is at the bottom of site. For example, your instance, reddthat.com, is 0.18.3. Most instances should have upgraded to 0.18.3 already - choose one of those. Any instance running 0.18.3 should work, big or small.
The account you "download" with won't be touched at all. The account you "upload to" will receive all the subscriptions and blocks of the downloaded account.
Hey after entering my instance login details and hitting download, the application window is disappearing. What's going wrong?