I have two lemm.ee communities and I very much want to keep the post history in one community for discover ability and archival purposes.
What tools and methods are available to transfer posts from one instance to another?
I have two lemm.ee communities and I very much want to keep the post history in one community for discover ability and archival purposes.
What tools and methods are available to transfer posts from one instance to another?
I’ve been informed this community ‘move to piefed’ feature only works for communities that are already subscribed from a piefed user, and I don’t believe the lemmy-federate bot works here.
So some elbow grease may still be required.
@rimu@piefed.social @iso@lemy.lol
What would it take to create a “piefederate” bot?
It’s pretty easy to implement. In fact, I was working on it. But I got discouraged because of some absurd political decisions. Still open to PRs though.
Update, so you can backfill, using
https://piefed.social/retrieve_remote_post
BUT if you want to backfill comments you need to use the comment url and not the post url
This could benefit from automation, but all the difficult parts are there.
Credit goes to Blaze they really know lemmy inside and out.
Also - If you edit a old post, that does get picked up by piefed.social even if it doesn’t have the original post. so a edit does cause refederation… this works for comments too