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Trying to help move a few communities off reddit. Confused about Kbin vs Lemmy and some of the migration tools. (kbin.social)
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Hello All,

I'm trying to assist in migrating a few subs over to Kbin/Lemmy, I'm still confused on the difference between Kbin and Lemmy.

Regardless, have been looking into tools to migrate content from the subs, and came across this one https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

However, the readme assumes readers have knowledge they don't have, so it's for example not clear to me if it's possible to "import" the database created by this tool to an existing lemmy instance or if I would need to create an entirely new instance just to host the content (and then what? can instances be "merged"?)

Thanks for your time in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It requires access to the Lemmy instance database.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks!

Would you happen to know of any tools that don't require DB access?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could use a bot to repost your content https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot though there is more value in just creating unique content as Reddit posts are probably already archived.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thank you!