This one got me too.

lemmy.ml specifically is running requests through a user agent checker - and if it’s empty, which reqwest is by default, you will get a 403.

You can see an example here of using ClientBuilder to set a user agent string: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/blob/main/src/lemmy/api.rs

So set any string (should be your project name) and then it should work.

FYI there was a federation issue and long story short this post is effectively only visible to .world, while everyone else sees this one: https://lemmy.ml/post/1870958

Apologies!

Hey OP, I wrote a tool that does this if you are still looking for one: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Does profile settings, subscriptions, and blocks.

The devs have definitely said there will be an official way to backup your account and import into another at some point, but I don’t think they’ve decided what exactly what would be like. Lots of possibilities with varying degrees of difficulty.

If vlemmy comes back up you can use this tool I made to pull down a list of subscriptions, blocks, etc. and if you want, copy all those to a new account:

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Obviously your comments, etc. are gone, but at least you can keep browsing uninterrupted from another instance.

I’ve thought about making a feature request for Lemmy itself to support this, but would you guys ever consider some kind of page with all the blocked instances and why they were blocked?