I want to migrate my photos from instagram to pixelfed. Is it possible to modify post addition date? Or only way is to self host own instance and modify on database?
If it the only way, I would be happy to donate to existing one and ask admins to change dates… I dont see the point of creating new one
Post dating publications: don’t know if the others fediverse instances will understand what you are doing (?).
Pretty sure no admin in the world would like to mess with their database and instance integrity plus potential side effects on the federation.
You may try it in your own lab at first. Something like in a local VM on your own computer, selfhost pixelfed, ask chatgpt how to overwrite publications date and see what happen.
When I migrated to Pixelfed, I imported a backup that was exported from Instagram. It correctly read all the data and the imported posts had the correct original date and captions and everything. Looking at my profile now on pixelfed.social, the import is disabled by admin. So maybe there’s an instance that has the import enabled.
@Kkk2237pl What ablut Just reposting them with note pointing to their original post date and location.
There’s already a feature request for that: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2871
So far, I only know of GotoSocial that allows backdating new posts. And it even has a “gallery” theme that you can set as default to get something remotely similar to Pixelfed.
Manually backdating is one thing, but importing them from Instagram with the original timestamp is a different. That’s why #2871 is still open and #4558 was closed as “not planned”, I guess.
Yesterday I tried to import from Instagram at several Pixelfed instances. Most of them disabled it, one was returning error
Are there other android apps for Pixelfed, other than the official Pixelfed app?
On android pixelix and pixeldroid
