How to move forum from telegram to Lemmy, of course if possible (al least all info dialogue, foto etc).

  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    What? Telegram isn’t a forum… you can create a phpbb like forum with Lemmy, but that’s going to need to be manually done by you. What you’re suggesting isn’t possible.

    • pescetarian@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      Most people use it like forum, and calling this like a channel… that’s what want to tell.

      • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        If you’re talking about their new forum like layout it’s still a live group chat. Not a forum.

  • pescetarian@lemmy.mlOP
    3·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t expect so much hatred (shit) and aggression on such a non trivial question. It was a question, not an invitation to bully those who asked it. There is a solution, however, not in the aspect of the participants in this dialogue.

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    well… it can be done IMO, but there’s no one-click solution.

    I don’t know the inners of Lemmy too much, but at first, without any reading up, my approch would be first create a Telegram bot and invite it to every channel you want to migrate to Lemmy as a Community or post in a community. Not sure how would you like to lay out channels in Lemmy, but let say this time it will be community/channel and one message in channel will be a post in Lemmy, and threads of messages/first replies of that message would be lemmy comments.

    but either way, according to any logic, this Telegram bot would export all messages in a structured way; json or straight to sql. With this, Telegram part done, but for all the info you need to setup your Lemmy.

    on your lemmy, the people used your Telegram channels should make an account. Make note of their IDs, your Telegram bot should do the mappings. if it’s irrelevant, link everything to a dummy/bot user

    now this is the part I’m not sure of if possible, but the rest should be just the matter of merging your export into Lemmy db, to create communities, posts, comments. Probably media uploads are neccessary too. and you should see your Lemmy populated. yonly thing is, there would be no scores for the imported data, but users should have posts and comments.

    this is all theoritical, of course.

  • arthur@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can harvest everything from the we client, but there are no simple solution for this problem, both are too different from each other.

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    You could try exporting the data and see if which format it is in maybe you can convert that and write a script that does it… What’s the use-case? Do you have some big topics that are missing here? Several users willing to switch?