See the linked page for information about how it works, limitations, etc. and I’ll of course answer any questions below!

As I have stated in the release section, this software is alpha so please don’t be afraid to report bugs!

Releases are here: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases

Right now the program only supports Lemmy BE 0.18.1-rc9, but new releases will try to support new versions as they are released. The Lemmy API is changing a ton right now, but I’ll try to keep up.

  • Matthew@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    OMG, I literally JUST migrated manually to a new account haha. Awesome little tool, however. Will be sending it to my friends who are thinking of migrating away from lemmy.world.

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    1 year ago

    The culture appearing in the Lemmy/Kbin universe reminds me of some gaming communities where people help each other, some by giving advice or tips they’ve learned, others by using their skills to create addon tools to solve a problem.

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      For sure! The whole reason I made this was because I saw so many posts asking for a way to do this.

      That said, it’s obviously a stop-gap until the devs add an official way to do this via Lemmy itself, but the last time I saw them talk about that it was (understandably) pretty low on their priority list - and I’m not nearly comfortable enough in rust or databases to make a PR to Lemmy itself - at least not yet.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve not used this, but wanted to say thanks for making it! I’m sure it’ll be indispensable to some.

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    1 year ago

    Very nice, I’ve used another script that did the subscriptions, but this additionally doing blocks and other settings is much better.

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      Which platform are you using?

      I know for Ubuntu (Linux) I have to chmod the binary after unzipping it (that is, use the terminal set the binary to execute with “chmod 755 lasim”).

      Mac OS X is untested - I don’t have a Mac to try it out, but it might have a similar problem.

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        1 year ago

        MacOS. Literally has no extension or anything. I have no idea how to run this thing.

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          Yeah I can use GitHub to generate Mac OS X artifacts but I can’t test them, so maybe it doesn’t even work.

          I suspect it’s just a permissions thing on the binary though, and running into the same issues as Ubuntu. I assume nothing happens if you just double click it? Or an error message?

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            1 year ago

            This is what I get if I double click it (after all the security prompts).

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              Yeah it’s not treating it as an app, it’s trying to open it as a text file haha. But I don’t own a Mac, so I can’t debug the steps one would need to take to make OS X treat it as an application.

              I think it’s just a permissions thing, but again I’m not sure. I think a terminal call to mark it as executable or changing the extension might do it.

              I guess I’ll have to find someone in my life with a Mac hahaha.