Is there tooling for importing my Twitter archive into a Mastodon database, properly backdating all the posts (assuming local PG access)?
@jesse I think [1] might help. But beware of [2] when importing that data. Maybe [3] is worth a look as well?
[1] https://mathstodon.xyz/@timhutton/109316834651128246
[2] https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/import-twitter-archive/18https://github.com/FGRibreau/import-tweets-to-mastodon06/2
[3] https://github.com/FGRibreau/import-tweets-to-mastodon
@jesse Next question: what use do you expect from having your Twitter date in a Mastodon instance's DB?
@wusel 3 doesn't backdate posts.
I have numerous threads going back years and frequently refer to or reference historical tweets.
@jesse Haven't looked at the Twitter-Archive-Data, but: will that include posts/replies from non-you? AFAIK not. So, any interaction with your tweets won't be existing within the Fediverse anyway? Or what am I missing?
@wusel I interact with my own tweets.
@jesse Your mean like this? (Pic)
IMHO, something like an archive.org snapshot should be created and stored locally for any thread from »the bridsite«. After all, the Twitter export doesn't reflect any account renamings since a tweet was sent, so the longer one's archive goes back, the more errorprone it gets :-(
