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Too late assholes... I'm already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.

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[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

And I believe the devs are working on adding discord-like channels with multiple groups under a single community.

If you have a link to a discussion or issue where they're tracking this, I'd love to follow it.

They'll also need to figure out how to let rooms have more than 1000 people, which is currently the limit on Movim (and it might be an XMPP limitation). Right now, Matrix seems like the only option for a Discord migration, but I hope that changes soon.

I might move my Discord community to Matrix, but I'd want a full 100% clone of the server's history. Seems like that's almost possible?

Discord scrapers like DiscordChatExporter can dump a whole channel to JSON (although I don't see a lot of scraper options that let you pause/resume/retry an export... looking for suggestions if people have any).

And the Mautrix Discord bridge already makes it look like real users sent bridged messages. I think with a little customization, the Mautrix bridge could be modified to import an enormous JSON file to fully mirror an entire Discord server, instead of just grabbing messages in real time. It's already got the functions there to "send a message as xyz user."

Matrix or not, "take your Discord dump and clone it somewhere federated" would be huge for migrations like this. I really hope someone works on that soon 🙏

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

If you have a link to a discussion or issue where they’re tracking this, I’d love to follow it.

They've mentioned needing to accelerate the development of it on their Mastodon account in light of the Discord blunder, such as here, and they just had a user poll there that resulted in Discord-like grouped channels/spaces being the most requested.

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 2 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)

Thank you!! Really looking forward to this, Movim is already pretty nice.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 29 minutes ago

No prob! I'm excited for it too ^^