MVP of the day: slurp by @vyr@princess.industries.
-
MVP of the day:
slurpby @vyr@princess.industries. Easily exported my follows, mutes, and bookmarks (!) from Mastodon and imported them into GoToSocial.GitHub - VyrCossont/slurp: tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances
tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances - VyrCossont/slurp
GitHub (github.com)
-
Nice! I just did that manually with the CSV export/import interface, but it is nice to have one tool for it.
I believe slurp is able to import posts too but I'm hesitant to enable the API path that allows that, as there are a lot of federation implications I'm not clear on; I think that feature is mostly built with brand-new, single-user instances in mind.
-
@amin I thought it just published posts as copies, so I don't expect there to be significant federation implications. Just a bunch of new posts without replies and favourites
-
The problem is it would then federate your entire past toot backlog out to every server with someone following you, very quickly. I remember when calckey (they changed their name to firefish I believe) was testing a very similar feature and it ended up spamming the federated and hashtag timelines of other servers. I had several posts from years before showing up in my home timeline because they had a hashtag I was following. I heard it also caused performance issues for some servers.
-
