Archiving my microblogging

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I started posting on Twitter in the early 2010s; it was primarily very useless things. I unofficially left in 2018 when I joined mastodon.technology (I had a cross-poster going for a while, but mostly stopped checking Twitter). And when that shut down in late 2022, I co-created Wikis World and have been posting there ever since.

A good chunk of my Twitter posts were deleted when I set up Semiphemeral and mastodon.technology is entirely gone.

I had kept account exports for each of them and have now selectively imported my posts onto my blog: twitter-archive and mastodon-archive. It was a fun trip down memory lane.

The actual export was pretty straightforward, Twitter's archive came with a built-in HTML viewer, which was nice for picking which posts to archive. For Mastodon, I used Mastodon Archive Viewer (Zero's fork). I've included links to the Wayback Machine on the individual posts for convenience, but most of them are not individually archived.

I've thought about doing a POSSE setup, and maybe I will eventually, but for now I feel okay with microblogging solely on Wikis World (in some sense it is partially my "Own Site"). I hope in the future Mastodon lets you take your posts with you so I don't need to manually archive them again.