Some folks on mastodon delete posts after a period, sometimes for privacy sometimes to save server space.
Is there a nice way to download a thread/archive it?
I don’t want to distribute them, I think there’s two cases:
1 I like having an archive of stuff I’ve said so I can look at it years later.
2 people have good advice/essays and I’d like to read them in the future.
@Tim_Eagon oh yeah I need to try that too I haven’t yet either.
Hmm I assume for my replies it just shows my messages and not someone else’s but I guess I should try and confirm!
Wouldn’t work for random threads I’m not in like when an RPG person goes on an interesting ramble about something in depth
@Tim_Eagon@james Yeah. I set my posts to auto-delete after a week unless they meet certain thresholds, and I manually delete most of my posts within a day ... because I want them to be gone.
If I knew anyone was harvesting them, that would be upsetting.
@Tim_Eagon Yeah I presume it’s technically feasible.
Thinking of the privacy side I wonder (hypothetically I don’t have enough interest or time to write something) if any of those deletion settings are publicly visible so you could exclude people.
I was more thinking about the “this is basically just a blog post” type threads from the bird site.
If such a tool existed it would certainly be double edged!
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