As per the title.

If I was running a Vanilla forum and wanted to migrate over to a new lemmy instance, e.g. forum.com to lemmy.forum.com Could I migrate the entire forum over while keeping the same categories/sub categories as communities I guess, and bringing all of the old threads with them? If it is possible, would it be difficult?

  • Bobby Turkalino
    3·
    3 days ago

    If you don’t care about the migrated content being federated, then you could write a script which copies everything into the database of your Lemmy instance

    If you do care, then you would have to go with the other person’s suggestion of having a bot post the migrated content periodically

    • Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
      2·
      3 days ago

      If the forum users are local, there’s no issue federating them. That is, if the db was migrated in the first place.