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Basically the title. I'd like to not lose anything and import users, communities, posts/comments, etc to hit the ground running but on a more stable platform.

@rimu@piefed.social Is that possible?

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's unimplemented, but might be in the future.

... if it's ever implemented i'm going to bug db0 to death about making a piefed instance on dbzer0 :D

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Any idea if he's referring to a turnkey "run a script" / "push a button" type solution that's not (yet) available?

If all other aspects of it are technically possible, I'd be more than willing to manually muck around in the database to move things ove and take what was learned from that and hopefully make a DB migration script.

[–] freamon@preferred.social 6 points 19 hours ago

I think that's what he meant, yeah (no existing DB migration scripts, etc). I don't know much about it, but I imagine it was probably always going to involve someone more familiar with Lemmy diving into the trenches.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well he never elaborated. But feel free to ask him directly at https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-general:matrix.org

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Where is the screenshot from?

... if it's ever implemented i'm going to bug db0 to death about making a piefed instance on dbzer0 :D

call it "divisions by 1" ;P

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-general:matrix.org

That was actually an inside joke between someone else and I - piefed.dbon1.com lol

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 17 points 20 hours ago

Tagging @rimu@piefed.social as mentions don't work in post bodies, only in comments.

Would be interesting indeed to have a database migration script or so.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 20 hours ago

Watching as I'm curious

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Isn't this not possible just for Lemmy itself? E.g. programmatically moving a community (post, comments, subs, automatic redirect etc) from one instance to another.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 4 points 20 hours ago

I doubt that's possible, but everything is possible with software, so I hope someone has made a script to do so