• Saik0A
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    2 years ago

    Be mildly competent at computers… or know someone who is and willing to help you.

    Either setup your own instance, or find an instance that’s already setup that you like and the owner will let you add stuff to the database…

    Start a community…

    Read here… https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

    Success! now you’ve migrated your subreddit to lemmy!

    (This is a little sarcastic. I’m not good at legit guides. But it is possible!)

    Edit: tweaked phrasing… doing this to general public servers would be unlikely.

    • blindsight@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Just wanted to add that not all instances are allowing new community creation, including Beehaw.

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        2 years ago

        Yeah, there’s an edit. Seems not to have propagated back to beehaw. yay for beta!

    • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org
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      2 years ago

      Well, that is an interesting script. I wonder how many will come across? Maybe they will pull the top 20% or something.