It wasn’t always an option - around the time of the first big mass migration of Reddit users it wasn’t something you could do. I actually wrote a tool at that time that could automate the manual action of re-subscribing / re-blocking everything.

But yeah, these days it’s a feature of Lemmy itself, which is great because it’s much more efficient than trying to do things client-side.

Super cool project. FYI it does require converting your ebooks to a special format.

I suspected as much since it’s using an Arduino Mega - very battery efficient I’m sure, but very underpowered.

I posted this on another thread about this, but I’ll repost it here:

I have made a tool that can backup / copy your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks to a new account: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

There are others out there as well if you look.

Obviously the loss of .ml communities would still be catastrophic to Lemmy, but at least your new account won’t start from ground-zero, and you can be less effected by downtime by having 2 accounts with the same subscriptions.

I made a tool that downloads and/or migrates your account settings: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Not as good as something built into Lemmy, but it’s a good stop-gap in the meantime.