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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?

#fediverse !Friendica Support
Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦  
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I don't know of any possibility. Since I don't have got a Facebook account, i can't even code anything there.
Jesper Ross Stocholm
Jesper Ross Stocholm  
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Hi Michael, thank you for replying so swiftly 😊.

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)

😊

utopiArte
utopiArte  
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> "What do I do with the 17 years of pictures I have on Facebook?"


  • [li] A) learn[li] B) stop repeating the same error expecting a different outcome[li] C) download your entire account[li] D) Do as
@Max Schrems recommended, send them a letter so they have to send you all your data on CD\DVD.[li] .. walk on and never look back.


The classical meme of a coala walking away from a place, poring gasoline and throwing his cigarette away, while the code "sudo rm -rf" is seen.

@Jesper Ross Stocholm @Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Max Schrems @Jesper Ross Stocholm
VegOS
VegOS  
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@Jesper Ross Stocholm @Michael 🇺🇦 I support this, but I also have mixed feelings if folks bring all their Facebook shit to the fedi databases. There should be an app or a program to access the Facebook file locally on the user device so they can quote from it, if there is a need. Me personally, if I have something worth to preserve, I would not rely on social networks doing this/the storage for me.
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Jesper Ross Stocholm
Matthias 🇪🇺
Matthias 🇪🇺  
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@Jesper Ross Stocholm
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.

https://github.com/loma-one/private_Friendica_Addon/tree/main/nextcstorage

@Jesper Ross Stocholm
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