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How do I apply an archive of my posts from one account, and import them as posts on a different account?

The "export" feature (one of the account Preferences) says:

> You can request an archive of your posts and uploaded media. The exported data will be in the ActivityPub format, readable by any compliant software.

Okay, once we have this archive ("in ActivityPub format"), what is the "compliant software" to read it in as posts on my Mastodon account?

So then @evan what is telling me when it says

> The exported data will be in the ActivityPub format, readable by any compliant software.

What "compliant software" is it referring to?

A feature like "restore posts and media from archive" seems the most obvious use of an archive of posts and media.

Is this a case of "we have backup implemented, but not restore"? wtf

@bignose, @evan is not the appropriate person to address for implementation details, he is one of the co-authors of the #ActivityPub spec, but has (probably?) little to do with #Mastodon development...

However you are correct that this is a case of export being implemented but import not... even by Mastodon itself. There may be other software that can read it, but I am not personally aware of any.

bignose

Yep, I'm aware of that @devnull

@evan knows I love him, but he opened this up when he asserted what implements and doesn't. I'm asking for more detail of that assertion.

@bignose @devnull you're also mad because you want a feature we haven't specified for ActivityPub yet. I think it's important, but we don't have it. Maybe there is other compliant software you can use to set up a static archive or do statistical analysis, I don't know. I do know there's no way to backup from one server and restore on another.