Mastodon Backup Viewer Tool - View Your Post Archives in Browser Offline !!
🚀 Amazing - Boost 🚀
https://bovine.social/mastodon/
(JSON archive file to human readable HTML style page)
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Why this tool is needed ?
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⚠️ Mastodon DOES NOT HAVE it's own way to show your own posts archive OFFLINE in a HUMAN READABLE format!
(LOL!)
⚠️ YOU CANNOT MOVE YOUR MASTODON POSTS FROM ONE PUBLIC SERVER TO ANY ANOTHER!! ⚠️
⚠️ ONLY YOUR SERVER SHOWS NATIVELY THE OLD POSTS SO IG SERVER GOES, SO DOES YOUR POSTS !!! ⚠️
If you delete your profile / move / admin quits server / servers corrupts then you don't have your own posts in a way you can read!!
LOOOOOL....
What kind of micro-blogger doesn't have already a tool or format you can read yourself in the same way online? Mastodon !
Your backup (if you save it) is 1 big text file, with lines of code parameters + text of posts mixed between it all (all stuck together) - so 1 long line of code and post text, which isn't great as a backup!
No images just hyperlinks to the offline image files if you have them !! 
⚠️ YOU ALSO *CANNOT* MOVE YOUR POSTS FROM ONE PUBLIC MASTODON-COMPATIBLE SERVER TO ANOTHER!! ⚠️
So if you ever move.... YOU CANNOT IMPORT BACK TO PUBLIC SERVER!! LOOOOOL
NO PAST POSTS IN NEW PROFILE !!!
This tool helps see them offline at least if you're going to move or lose your online server:
https://bovine.social/mastodon/
CREDIT TO helge:
https://codeberg.org/helge/fediverse-projects/src/branch/main/mastodon_archive_viewer
#FreeSchool #Fediverse Solutions + Answers
#Mastodon #Export #Backup
#Tool #Convert
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Quick How-To....
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Go to "Edit profile"
...then Import / Export...
Data Export
Download TAR.GZ Archive file
Extract OUTBOX.JSON file
Open file at https://bovine.social/mastodon/
READ POSTS LIKE YOU DO NOW !!
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Longer How-To... / Step-by-step
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1. "Edit profile" page (while logged in)
2. Import / Export > Data Export
e.g. you should end up at
https://YOURSERVER..COM/settings/export
3. Create Export / Backup (export takes a bit of time)
3. Download the export file (a TAR.GZ file - need a zip-like program to open)
4. Extract OUTBOX.JSON file out of this downloaded TAR.GZ file
5. Use https://bovine.social/mastodon/ to open!
6. Save (print / export to PDF / PNG / MP4 scrolling capture)
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🚀 Amazing - Boost 🚀
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