Import Facebook content (pictures) into friendica
!Friendica Support I suggested today on Facebook that people should start using friendica (or, any #fediverse service) instead of Facebook. I was immediately asked:
"What do I do with the 17 years of pictures I have on Facebook?"
I tried to find an answer - hoping that there would be a way similar to the Instagram import feature of pixelfed, but I could not find one.
Is there a way to get all of your content from Facebook imported into friendica? Or do you know of a #fediverse service similar to friendica that has this feature?
Michael πΊπ¦
in reply to Jesper Ross Stocholm π©π° • • •Jesper Ross Stocholm π©π°
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I would imagine that access to Facebook would be the smallest issue - on pixelfed you simply export your content from Instagram in JSON format to a ZIP file that is then uploaded.
I just did the same thing on Facebook. I would imagine that parsing/understanding the file would be somewhat trivial - the majority of the work would be adding it as a real feature in friendica.
(I am in no way trying to minimize the effort in implementing this as a solid feature of friendica).
I imagine that lack of this feature would prevent a lot of people from moving to friendica from Facebook. People (me included, btw) have their entire lives since +2005 documented there)
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in reply to Jesper Ross Stocholm π©π° • • •> "What do I do with the 17 years of pictures I have on Facebook?"
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in reply to Jesper Ross Stocholm π©π° • • •Matthias
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I would have problems if so much data arrived that had to be checked, processed and stored. That's why I'm currently experimenting with an add-on (Poc) that connects Friendica to a Nextcloud or another OCM system. That could be Magentacloud, for example.
Instead of migrating images, you could connect a mirror to Friendica, which would be used to access the data (gallery). At the same time, the mirror could copy new files to the cloud via Webdav.
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Jesper Ross Stocholm π©π°
in reply to Matthias • • •I think it boils down to who Friendica wants to attract as users on the platform.
To sharpen the pen a bit, there are two groups:
The second group is the people that are already here. The first group is largely not.
My motivation for this suggestion is that many people have their lives documented on Facebook (well, since 2007/2009 or so). They would like to take that with them, if they leave. Asking them to download their photos to their PCs or host them somewhere else is often not a viable solution.
Other platforms in the #fediverse have this Import feature. There is one on Pixelfed (which I used to drop Instagram completely) and the new Nolto business network has a LinkedIn import feature. Granted, the LinkedIn import is not large (bytesize-wise), but the Instagram import from Pixelfed certainly is.
I acknowledge that it requires storage on the individual servers, but - as on Pixelfed - it should be a feature that could be enabled/disabled by admins, if there was a wish to support this.
Believe me, I really love Friendica. I think it is the best alternative to Facebook a the moment, but ... honestly ... it can be a hard sell when trying to convince Facebook-users to make the switch.