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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[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Which service? Mastodon has a built-in export functionality in preferences.

I can't find such an option on Lemmy, but you should be able to do a GDPR request for your information as a last resort.

edit: Non-post data / user settings can be exported (and imported!) but posts are a separate issue. See this open issue.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wondering about Lemmy specifically. I know there’s an export option for settings though.

[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks that’s helpful. I’ll wait it out I guess as I’m not upto tinkering with the API right now.

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