I’ve heard about LASIM a few times now, this great tool for migrating Lemmy subscriptions from one account to another. I downloaded it from Github recently to try it out… only problem? I have no clue how to get it to run. All the instruction I read online just say “run LASIM” as if it’s that trivial and leave me feeling silly.
Can anyone explain this in terms that I (not an experienced programmer) could understand? Am I missing something really obvious?
Edit; I’m on Windows if that matters
Are you downloading the compiled version for your OS from the Releases area?
Run the program. You should start out with Download highlighted at the top. Put in your Lemmy instance and credentials where it asks. Hit the Download button, which will download a JSON file - it’ll pull stuff like subscriptions from your Lemmy account. At the top, tab over to Upload. Put in the new instance and credentials, and hit Upload. It should pull the JSON file it created when you downloaded and “set up” your new account you’re migrating to. You’ll still need to go in and adjust some things, but your subscriptions (for example) should be there.
I don’t know if you managed to do it yet, but in that case it’s for future people finding this: I think you’re suffering from first-time-on-GitHub-itis. Don’t worry, I had it too, back in the day. I think that you might just have downloaded the source code of this program (at the top right it says download to zip). You can’t run that without compiling it into an executable (program) yourself. What you should do instead, is find the tab labelled “Releases” and download the release for your operating system (windows, macOS or Linux). That should allow you to run the program. :)
