vga256

really, really impressed with posty: a mastodon archive -> html static site generator

it ingests your mastodon archive (post history) as a zip, and barfs out an entire static html site with indices and tags. all servable with any standard web server.

this is super helpful because when i shut down the dialup.cafe instance, there was no easy way to get access to my old posts and images.

it can either be run online here:
https://posty.1sland.social

or instructions here for running it locally:
https://codeberg.org/oliphant/posty

#mastoAdmin #mastodon

Nov 30 at 8:09pmWeb
Show threadThe Polish Dispatch5d ago
@vga256 It should be pretty straighforward to host such archive on github pages.
Show threadvga2565d ago
@ThePolishDispatch seems like a very bad idea to me - i wouldn't want github using anyone's posts feeds for LLM ingestion.
Show threadThe Polish Dispatch5d ago
@vga256 True
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧4d ago
@vga256 @ThePolishDispatch (that's why i run https://grebedoc.dev/)
Grebedoc

Static site hosting for Git forges

Show threadMax Almonte4d ago
@vga256 this is beautiful. Gotta try it myself.
Show threadRichard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️4d ago

@vga256

THANKS for this as the existing archiving tools do not give me anything I can figure out how to read.

Show threadvga2564d ago
@the5thColumnist it’s surprisingly well designed!
Show threadYOULE 4d ago

@vga256 Fantastic! I’ve tried other Mastodon-archive-to-HTML software for my old mas.to account but they didn’t work for me. Will give this a try today!

EDIT: It works! My mas.to archive is now live: https://masto-archive.moule.world

MOULE - Home

An archive of MOULE@mas.to

MOULE - Home
Show threadvga2564d ago
@MOULE good luck!
Show threadShadow, First of His Name4d ago
@vga256 oooh, I gonna try this someday, I had the archive somewhere on the hard drive.
Show threadKiëd Llaentenn4d ago
@vga256 Alas, uploading my archive leads to a 500.
Show threadvga2564d ago
@unlkfp running it locally is the way.
Show threadD. Olifant Still Won't Shut Up4d ago
@vga256 @unlkfp Yeah, if you have a rather large archive, uploading it might lead to that 500 error. Locally, you can give it a lot more resources (plus the upload cost is nonexistent).
Show threadKai Pelzel4d ago
@vga256 Thank you so much for posting this. I was looking for exactly this solution.
Show threadvga2564d ago
@kaipelzel cheers!
Show threadD. Olifant Still Won't Shut Up4d ago
@vga256 Heyyy, creator of Posty here. I love that it worked so well for you. :)
Show threadvga2564d ago
@oli oh awesome! i owe you a huge debt of gratitude - you saved me from running a second instance just to access my old toots. really appreciate it - thank you.
Show threadbituur esztreym4d ago
@vga256 whoa
Show threadJan Korbel 🐧4d ago
@vga256 Yes, very usefull. And with from-to limit you can create archive of some event messages.
Show threadmzumquadrat2d ago
@vga256 This is so cool. And I love the hypercard background.