Best way this can work is if your script kepts a record in its own DB of github posts it had made and then polled them for comments in the future. Store the github URL and the corresponding lemmy posts in sqlite. When the schedule runs, go through the github posts you've already added and check for comments. Any comment added post it on the corresponding lemmy post and store it in the DB as a relation of gitub comment -> lemmy comment. When checking, if the comment in github already exists in your DB, skip it.
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The other thing to remember is that post IDs are relative to the Lemmy server you're working with. So post/12345
is almost surely not post/12345
on another server.
I mod a couple of communities on another server and this caught me off guard when trying to share what I thought were good URLs.
OP, you could even use a local file/sqlite database in the repo and just update and commit it when the script runs.
Simon Willison has a cool approach for this that runs in GitHub Actions and keeps the versioned state in git itself: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/