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!

  • Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • Peter WillemsenOPA
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      11 months ago

      I totally agree, I just wanted to keep my posts because they mean a lot to me, I used it on my own community which at the time was empty as I just moved to lemmy.

      I was a bit excited after making this, and will update the Readme with a word of warning!