We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well.

Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!

  • clara
    6•1 year ago

    this might be a good place for me to reach out into the void

    i’m interested in migrating two of my servers over to a matrix server, but i also want to back-copy all the old messages to the matrix client.

    does a matrix bridge do all this copying? i.e, if i was to setup a discord-matrix bridge, allow messages to sync, and then disconnect the bridge, does the matrix server then have a copy of all the old messages? it doesn’t have to match to the old users or anything, i’m just interested in having the content migrate over.

    this is currently the biggest hurdle for me, because one of my servers is a private family discord, and i really don’t want to have to explain to my mum that “all the content of the last 4 years is gone” 😅

    • @Im_old
      5•1 year ago

      Short answer: yes. Longer answer: I have a matrix server with a whatsapp bridge. If I remove the connection between WhatsApp and matrix, I can still see a the contacts and messages (of WhatsApp) in matrix.

      If you have questions reach out, no problem.

      • Antik 👾
        6•1 year ago

        But it will only bridge messages that are sent AFTER you created the bridge. It looks like he’s asking to copy the complete history of those discord channels over to matrix.

      • clara
        5•1 year ago

        i do have a question, sure

        for the avoidance of doubt, you are saying that a matrix bridge can copy all previous messages over from a discord server, to a matrix server, even the messages made before the creation of the bridge? i.e, transfer the entire conversation log over to the matrix server, going back all the way to the first message in a channel?

        actually, phrasing this another way, i just caught myself in the XY problem. what i need really, is a copy of a given discord server’s content, onto a fresh matrix server. bridge or no bridge. is there any way to (broadly) copy and paste the content of a discord channel over to a matrix server, one time only. i know how to extract the discord content using the discord chat log tool, tokens etc. so, say i have one of those html files with the full chatlog and contents - how do i put that into a matrix server, and have it roughly readable? (if that’s possible)

        thank you for your patience, i have tried search engines for months with no clear answers

        • @SheeEttinEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Probably not. But why do you even need to do that? Chat platforms are ephemeral by nature. If there’s anything important that needs to be kept, you should consider a different platform.

    • Antik 👾
      3•1 year ago

      I don’t think that’s possible. At least the bridge software we used you can only link one matrix room to one discord channel. And the chat history from discord is not transferred either.

      We’re currently using https://t2bot.io/