Import Mastodon (Beta)
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I know it’s still beta, but there’s zero documentation (that I can see) for the Import Mastodon feature. (Is this even the right forum to be asking this?) All I can see under Tools>Import>Mastodon(Beta) is “Run importer”, and I don’t want to click that in case it immediately starts importing all the posts from the Mastodon account I’m logged into in my browser.
I don’t really think that’s what would happen, but with no “Details”, I can’t be sure. What I’d like to know is:
- Do we get to select a file/archive to use as the import source?
- If so, which type of file? Hopefully a previously downloaded .zip Mastodon archive.
- Does every imported Masto post become a single WP post, with any attached media being sent to the WP Media library, and embedded into the post?
- Does each created WP post have the same publish date as the original Masto post? I hope so. (I don’t want 500 “new” posts at the top of my WP feed)
- And, while I’d want each post to be “available” via my WP’s APub , I wouldn’t want to push out 500 “new” old posts to my blog’s followers. How would that work?
- What is the title of each new WP post? Would it be the first sentence or few words of the post, or something dull but sensible like the original post ID number, eg 123456789012345 ? (I can see that the latter might be useful, so you could easily associate, say, myoldinstance.social/@myusername/123456789012345 with
mywordpresssite.com/blog/123456789012345 ) - Do Favourite/Boost counts get imported, and/or shown? And who they were by?
- If it all goes horribly wrong, are there any Undo options?
Sorry for all the questions! I’m interested in trying it out, but I want to know exactly what I’m trying.
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