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!
This is very interesting. What date will show up in Lemmy for the post? The current date/time or the original?
It will keep the current date due to users not being able to override a timestamp, but the top part of a post shows the original date and link to the original post: https://lemmy.emerald.show/post/764
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.
