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@kib something i’ve yet to come to terms with while thinking of how i should be sharing photos instead of pixelfed is… there’s no export tool that gives you the image files. just your activity pub inbox.json stuff.

melanie kat

@kib ok this was a fun rabbit hole to go down. This was the new data export tool announced and supposedly released on January 4th 2025:
mastodon.social/@pixelfed/1137

The next day Daniel posted this: mastodon.social/@dansup/113778

Which makes me think all he did was take the 500 recent item limit off the JSON exports.

So here's the most obvious thing you've probably guessed: neither exists because Pixelfed has not released a new version since November
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/r

Pixelfed Data Export, showing the posts page
Mastodonpixelfed (@pixelfed@mastodon.social)Attached: 3 images Pixelfed Data Export a full backup of your account with a self contained html preview Available later today, where supported ✨ #pixelfed #dataExport

@zicklepop @kib Melanie was very excited to tell me about all of this, it was great.

@oli no, just a change to the json payload but even that didn’t ship in a release yet

@zicklepop One weird thing is that as of Jan 4, essentially you can't get outbox.json anymore on pixelfed.social, only pixelfed-statuses.json. I assume that's because main branch is deployed there.

Posty supports both formats for import, but ideally you'd use pixelfed-statuses.json at this stage, since your replies won't look like top-level posts (as in outbox.json) and you'd get all your posts.

There are a few other differences between pixelfed-statuses.json and outbox.json so you'd have to modify your script a bit to support each type.

In any case, feel free to throw your account.json + pixelfed-statuses.json or outbox.json at Posty, even if it's just to get your Pixelfed archive converted into a standard Mastodon format, and then you at least have all your data in a format that can be read by any of the various Mastodon archive readers out there, in addition to Posty.

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