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 @jesse Speaking for myself, the value of having the Twitter archive is that I can go back to a thread when I talked about something, the same way I would a blog post if I still wrote blogs.
(Mastodon makes that less useful because of the lack of full text search, so my ability to find them will be significantly decreased; I'm planning on creating a static archive on my website instead.)
@crschmidt @jesse Well, I still blog, and having a searchable archive of my tweets _and_ the interactions with them on Twitter would be great. But, of course, those »threads« have to have external replies as well to be useful, and that's a different story, AFAICS.
