Looking for help and hints

The Matrix server I'm on will be shut down.
Therefore i would like to migrate my account to a different server.
While I believe this to be possible the tool mentioned in the documentation (EMS Matrix Migration) isn't available any more

So, how do you migrate a Matrix account?

#Matrix #wisdomOfTheCrowd

@realn2s Maybe @stereo has an idea?

@florianauer @realn2s

i did this already and used this "harder but safe way" someone has thankfully described here:
https://finnes.dev/blog/2024/10-06-migrate-your-existing-matrix-account-the-harder-but-safe-way/

i think this is still "the way". what do you think @HarHarLinks ?

Migrate Your Existing Matrix Account, The Harder but Safe Way!

I love migrating my federated accounts on Mastodon, i have done so multiple times in my years using it. Its painless, its easy, and everything is done for me. Its like magic! So today I decided to also migrate my federated Matrix away from matrix.org, should be just as easy right? From a quick search online, there exists a preexisting solution called EMS Matrix Migration which should work similar to the migration of a mastodon account. But, how they achieve this is by logging into your previous and new account and then running a bunch of commands on your behalf. I do not particularly trust this method, since this would be giving away your password to a third party for a secure messenger protocol! How this is the “official way” is just baffling me. Also there not being an integrated way to do this in Element either, its only available in the paid and proprietary EMS toolbox. So to hell with this solution, lets just do it ourselves. How hard could that be?

@stereo @florianauer @realn2s The contemporary tool of choice is probably @domrim's fork https://gitlab.com/domrim/matrix-migrate, if a CLI tool works for you. Here is also my WIP guide on the topic: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/pull/3213/files.
Dominik Rimpf / matrix-migrate · GitLab

A fork of unfokus/matrix-migrate including the features from xtexx/matrix-migrate and

GitLab

@HarHarLinks @stereo @florianauer @domrim
Thanks 🙏🏻

Sadly i missed the opportunity to test it. My original secret war already switched off 😬
(They are not to blame, it was within the announced timeframe, just sooner than i hoped for 🥴)