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How do I migrate a Lemmy account? (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I host my own Lemmy instance and have a user account on it that I use everywhere (I don't host local communities, I just use it as a home for my Lemmy user account). I needed to re-home my Lemmy server, and though it's a docker installation, copying the /var/lib/docker/volumes/lemmy_* directories to the new installation didn't work. So I created a new Lemmy server.

How can I move my old account to the new server, so I can keep all my subscriptions and post/comment history?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've had that problem too (messing around with test instances) - for anyone else wondering why: it's because the RSA keypair for me@mydomain has changed, and remote instances fail to validate message headers signed with the new private key, because they're still using their copy of an old public key.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The key is refreshed after 24 hours so it will work if you wait a bit.