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How to "get posts into Piefed"? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure of the right words for what I mean. I'm still new to the Fediverse and even newer to PieFed.

I'm now 99% of the time in PieFed (my instance: piefed.social ) as opposed to Lemmy. Often I'll visit a community and see zero or almost zero posts. But if I open the same community in Lemmy (my instance: lemmy.ca) there are loads of posts.

An example I just noticed: [email protected]

Piefed.social: 2 posts.
Lemmy.ca: 141 posts.

Is there a way to get those missing posts into Piefed?
All of them at once (not just one at a time)?
Can an ordinary user like me do it?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I just tried the "Retrieve a post" function with one from [email protected]

In Lemmy (lemmy.ca), copied "original post" link: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36604560
In Piefed, clicked "Retrieve a post from the original server" https://piefed.social/retrieve_remote_post
[email protected] on PieFed now shows the post https://piefed.social/post/974588 :) , and comments from two communities: [email protected] and !PC [email protected] :)
But it does not show any of the 6 comments from [email protected] :(

Trying a different post via https://piefed.social/search

Searched for Posts > "No Gods, No Rulers" (looking for this post https://lemmy.world/post/21880443 )
None of the results are for that post on !stargate :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

I just retrieved a comment there: https://piefed.social/post/974588#comment_6777142

Using the original link of the comment (https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14337052) in the "retrieve remote post"

You can theoretically retrieve all the comments that way, but it would take a while. There might be some automated way to do it, but I'm not aware of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Crikey, it would take a while to do it all manually. I guess 99.999% of that pre-federation content will end up invisible to me on PieFed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

See the other comment about potential automation: https://piefed.social/post/974305#comment_6778240

Potentially a feature to work on in the future, but I guess there are higher priorities at the moment

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