Posting archival posts from Facebook, old blogs, Twitter, etc
I thought that maybe I could backdate posts with Friendica, but that's not possible.
What I'm doing for now is posting things with "Archive Post" along with the title and posting date in the title field. I may integrate discussion under posts from Facebook or a thread on Twitter into the post itself if it adds to the original post, clean up typos and such, but will try to leave the substance the same.
"Archive Post: Something of other (2001-01-01)"
The categories will include "Archive Post" and be set to non-public just to prevent distribution of the old posts. Nobody really cares about these than me.
Copy the post over, archive it on Facebook.
I have a Twitter archive from last year, before I killed that off. I might go through that a bit, but the motivation there is low.
I'm still generally unclear the use case for me with regard to Friendica and many other federated systems. I am really enjoying my Mastodon account, and find it about enough to replace Twitter and Facebook for most things.
There are times when I would like to have a longer, more bloggy size post limit. I've looked into options for retaining some old Facebook content with static sites (Hugo, etc), but when editing my timelines tldown, I find that much of the content is rage about some current news item or another.
I mean, I let go of most of the Twitter contents (65000 tweets if I remember right) with barely a look. Some of the most important things in the years Before Elon were in the interactions, the connections with other people. Those aren't as easy to hold on to as a simple post.
With the advent of AI sucking in all human content, maybe an expiring social media is the real answer
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