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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!

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] peter@lemmy.emerald.show 3 points 1 year ago

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