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A tool like this for the Fediverse / ActivityPub would be awesome.

• zimpenfish 2y ago
  > A tool like this for the Fediverse / ActivityPub would be awesome. Currently not ~~possible~~ that easy, sadly, because the Mastodon spec (which is basically what everyone uses) doesn't have the concept of backdated posts and, more importantly, even if you fudge your server to allow a date in your `Status` when posting[0], it'll still go "oh, this needs sending out to everyone"[1] as if it were a new post and let me tell you, the clients also do not know about backdated posts and things get confused real fast[2]. (I don't think it'd be a huge change to the spec to allow backdated statuses but getting consensus about how that actually works for, e.g., sending out, client handling, etc. would be a lot of work.) [0] I did this on my Akkoma server to import 15 years of Twitter bot posts. [1] Sadly my Elixir knowledge didn't extend far enough to be able to figure out how to prevent this for backdated posts. [2] To the point where I and everyone else had to unsubscribe from the Fedi bot whilst it was doing the backimport.