This tool lets you migrate your own posts from any subreddit to any Lemmy community you want, I made it because I couldn’t find anything else that did it the way I wanted to. I’m super happy how it turned out, I managed to get 9 years worth of posts over this way…
The GitHub link shows how to use it in case you want to!
❗ Word of warning
Using this tool in beehaw will get you banned for spamming. If you choose to use this in an instance you do not own, be sure you get explicit permission from the admins + mods of the target community before you do so.
Even if a community is meant for this sort of archiving, be sure to ask first. They might have a specific set of rules on choosing what they want to archive.
Please use this tool with care.
I updated the README to add a similar warning, thanks! https://github.com/peterwilli/lemmemovetolemmy/commit/91b3ecb9f1f8e270e76057c85b8a7f75402375d4
Thank you for adding the warning 😁 I bet many lemmy admins and mods appreciate it!
Hm, not too sure how I feel about this. I like it for preserving archival posts and moving community mod posts over, but it has the potential to really spam communities if done en masse by regular non-mod users. Lemmy really has succeeded the most so far at focusing on quality over quantity.
Wait, if I used the this, wouldn’t I just spam a shitload of posts to Lemmy in an instant?
I have a LONG user history on Reddit.
How does it choose what communities to post to, to match each subreddit?
Not only that, these presumably would all be old posts/comments being re-posted with current date/time. Maybe best to make sure the specific community or instance you’re sending this to accepts old Reddit content.
Interestingly this could be a use-case for Lemmy users having their own self named communities where they can dump old post/comment data into if they wish. e.g. for you it would be https://sopuli.xyz/c/MentalEdge (if it had existed).
It shows a top part in the post with original date and a perma link to said post like here: https://lemmy.emerald.show/post/764
This is great for lemmit.online, whose point is to archive reddit.
This isn’t really about the tool but the general idea of what to move. Like many I don’t feel most of my posts alone were that valuable, but what was lost was the chain of conversation that they were part of. I had requested and received my data from Reddit after a while and looking through it I realized this. I suppose I could weed through the Excel file (!!) and grab longer comments that I’ve made in ten years of discussion, and it’s always there to search if a memory is sparked, but I see no personal reason to dump it somewhere else.
I guess this is more a caution to not use a tool to mass spam just because you can. Not all posts are worth repetition, especially out of context.
