I’m thinking of migrating my Lemmy-Server over to Mbin so that I can follow Mastodon users as well. I know that there are tools to export/import the community and magazine subscriptions. But what about all my posts and comments?
I don’t have any communities on my server and I guess the posts and comments I made should live on in the other Lemmy servers. But it would be really nice to be able to navigate back to them and/or receive notifications about replies to old content.
Has anyone ever done something along those lines? Maybe even just with a dirty SQL script?
And I would like to keep all my pictrs uploads in some way. Though I guess this should be easier to figure out with some bash scripting.
I know that there are tools to export/import the community and magazine subscriptions.
I believe that’s only between lemmy <-> lemmy as there is no import implemented in Mbin currently
I haven’t heard of anyone migrating successfully between the two. Usually the most important thing is the instance private/public keys remaining the same. It was possible for /kbin instances to migrate to Mbin as the keys were kept the same so all other instances considered it the “same” instance according to activity pub. I’m not sure if that would be possible lemmy -> something else, but encryption is outside my knowledge (whether all AP instances use the same type of keys or it differs between software).
There is also the planned software Sublinks which says it will be a drop-in replacement for lemmy. I tried searching their github / old posts and couldn’t find whether they would support mastodon, just what they have on their site: “Embracing the fediverse, it supports the ActivityPub protocol, enabling interoperability with a wide range of social platforms.” But if they do plan on it, it might be easier to hop to that when it’s available as it’s specifically being made as a drop-in replacement so I imagine there will be migration docs available, but like I said, no idea of the timeline of that.
