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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?

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://piefed.social/post/667044

Basically, find the piefed.social copy of your community and then look for the 'move to piefed.social' link in the sidebar.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Time to shine for this feature

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, with 1700 communities on lemm.ee this will be a life saver... if we can automate the backfill.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Not sure all of them are worth moving, but yeah.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this!

I've been meaning to try Piefed, but never got to it.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

only works for communities that are already subscribed from a piefed user, and I don't believe the lemmy-federate bot works here

@rimu@piefed.social @iso@lemy.lol

What would it take to create a "piefederate" bot?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

@jet@hackertalks.com is working on automating the retrieval of comments, we just discussed this on the #piefed-general:matrix.org chat

[–] iso@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago

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.