Lemmy.ml is also the instance made by the lemmy devs

Did you try my suggestion in this comment?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1491482

I think your problem is that you aren’t pointing PowerShell at the right folder. You can use the cd command to get to the right folder containing the python script and config file.

It’s not too bad, it seems more difficult because I added all the steps. Changing the folder PowerShell is looking at is easy to do, but hard to explain.

Here’s a thread where I helped someone else with the process on windows: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1420339

The steps are:

1. Set up the python code
   1. Go to https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate/releases/tag/v1.1.0
   2. Download the zip file
   3. Extract the zip file, to make a folder somewhere on your system called lemmy_migrate-1.1.0. Remember where this folder is
   4. Inside the folder you will find a file called config.ini. Use notepad to edit the file to have your server URL and login credentials.
2. Set up the python interpreter
   1. Install python from https://www.python.org/downloads/
   2. Open powershell
   3. install the python package requests by pasting the following command into powershell: py -m pip install --user requests
3. Use the python interpreter to interpret your python
   1. first make sure powershell is looking at the correct folder. One way to do this is to open the lemmy_migrate-1.1.0 folder in windows explorer. right click on the box that shows you the path, and copy the text. then write cd <pasted path> in powershell. This path will very likely be something like C:\\Users\Wu9fee\Downloads\lemmy_migrate-1.1.0. If you don’t want to copy and paste the path from explorer, you can just do cd Downloads then cd lemmy_migrate-1.1.0
   2. Finaly, you can run the python command with py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

Let me know if you run into any problems.

If you can pull this off, you can officially say you know how to code.

I bet replacing python3 with py will work:

py -m pip install --user requests
py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

First, edit the .ini file with your lemmy servers, usernames and passwords.

Then make sure you have python interpreter with requests installed. You can check this with python3 -m pip show requests. if it says something like package not found, you should look into how to install python requests on your operatation system. If you downloaded it from python.org, python3 -m pip install --user requests should work.

Then you can do python3 lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini. Let me know if you run into any problems!

It would be possible to have a fully decentralized Lemmy. For example, just have everyone self host an instance and perhaps change how caching works. But there’s a downside of being harder for users to use and more duplation of moderation.

Federation is a balance between the decentralization and centralization

I’ve used this tool to migrate subscriptions.

Is temporary posts the feature you’re looking for?

One weakness of open platforms like activitypub is that it’s hard to ensure that your post is deleted. A bad actor can make a permanent copy of data they receive through activitypub.