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> It should be possible to export 100% of one's data stored in a service like Twitter or Reddit in a reasonably-parseable format (a tarball of JSON as one possi
by madeofpalk 3y ago
> It should be possible to export 100% of one's data stored in a service like Twitter or Reddit in a reasonably-parseable format (a tarball of JSON as one possible example, or maybe a SQLite database, or whatever is appropriate)
You can do that. You've been able to download, directly from twitter, an archive of pretty much your entire account. It's not quite JSON - it's actually a .js file that declares a single variable, but it's close enough.
- voxic11 3y agoYou can do the same with reddit. They give you a bunch of CSVs in a zip file.
- mschuster91 3y agoIt's incomplete, though - my archive for my old accounts misses all media (including the profile of my long-deceased cats...), and it's a bit useless because while yes I could probably import it into some fork of Mastodon, that doesn't mean the "social web" still works as there is no federation between Twitter and Mastodon.
- flagrant_taco 3y agoExpecting a best effort archive of data the platform still has archived is one thing, but expecting it to be complete and portable to a totally different service isn't realistic, especially when Twitter never claimed to support any protocols similar to WebMentions or ActivityPub.