I played it a lot when I got it - it was a good excuse to play some games that have been languishing in my library. Recently I haven't used it a ton except when on travel, but my fiance has played a lot of games on it, and it opens up the possibility of us playing PC games together. So I'd say it's been well worth it overall.
Everyone is saying it's missing from the API, but I don't think that can be the case since the regular Lemmy UI uses the API - so far as I know it isn't doing anything custom compared to apps / other frontends.
That said, obviously developers have to add those features to their front-ends, and could be waiting for whatever Lemmy API library they use to support certain calls.
I hadn't even considered this use case for LASIM, but that's really neat.
I've been thinking about a settings page where you can toggle what to sync, among a few other future features. I'll definitely add an option in the future to NOT sync the profile settings.
LASIM author here - you are correct. I explicitly made it "additive" to avoid accidents where you could end up erasing a bunch of subscriptions.
Right now LASIM only calls the subscribe API interface so it's actually impossible for it to unsubscribe you from anything.
I am considering adding a "destructive" sync in the future which, if toggled on, would unsubscribe you from anything not in the JSON file. But it's not implemented yet!
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.
FYI 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.
You can see my responses - I'm not sure there is much I can do, but I'm open to suggestions.
As stated in the linked issue, the most secure thing is to build it yourself or download directly from GitHub actions vs trusting the binaries I publish to releases.
Interesting! I wonder if that should be written up as a bug report, or if it's by design. I guess I could see both cases. Glad you figured it out though!
Lemmy.mlis down right now (back online, was unreachable for about 6 hours)
I played it a lot when I got it - it was a good excuse to play some games that have been languishing in my library. Recently I haven't used it a ton except when on travel, but my fiance has played a lot of games on it, and it opens up the possibility of us playing PC games together. So I'd say it's been well worth it overall.