Ok, this might be a dumb question, but is it really technically possible in any way - even a convoluted one, like manually downloading HTML pages from Facebook? - to mass import posts from one's Facebook into Mastodon or Friendica instead of painstakingly copying them one by one? I've got a 10+ year archive to port and it's a daunting task to go through them...

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[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Into Mastodon, I don't think it's possible easily

In friendica, There seems to have work on it, but nothing perfect it seems...

https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/5212

Maybe other people will find a workaround

[–] yigruzeltil@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The last poster says: "I found a roundabout way to go at it by transfering the posts to wordpress, I'll figure it out from there :)" I would have liked more info on that, though I'm afraid there would still be a catch - I don't use Wordpress anymore and never was a power user, so I'm not sure it would be possible on a free tier to stash an entire Facebook archive on a Wordpress page - and then what about importing it into the fediverse? There should be a guide for this somewhere.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there's so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.