lemmy - Link to source

Instagram to pixelfed migration

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

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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.

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lemmy - Link to source

mbirth 🇬🇧

There's already a feature request for that: github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i…

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.

Set a custom date for posts · Issue #2871 · pixelfed/pixelfed

If I want to post a picture of me a few years or months back and I want the displayed date to be the one when I shot the picture, it would be awesome to implement a feature which allows to set cust...
xplosionmind (GitHub)
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