I’ve heard about LASIM a few times now, this great tool for migrating Lemmy subscriptions from one account to another. I downloaded it from Github recently to try it out… only problem? I have no clue how to get it to run. All the instruction I read online just say “run LASIM” as if it’s that trivial and leave me feeling silly.
Can anyone explain this in terms that I (not an experienced programmer) could understand? Am I missing something really obvious?
Edit; I’m on Windows if that matters
I don’t know if you managed to do it yet, but in that case it’s for future people finding this: I think you’re suffering from first-time-on-GitHub-itis. Don’t worry, I had it too, back in the day. I think that you might just have downloaded the source code of this program (at the top right it says download to zip). You can’t run that without compiling it into an executable (program) yourself. What you should do instead, is find the tab labelled “Releases” and download the release for your operating system (windows, macOS or Linux). That should allow you to run the program. :)