Mastodon to Blog Archive script: manton.org

@dave Updated the post to link to the IndieWeb wiki page about it. It’s a format I proposed a few years ago, basically just a ZIP file of posts (HTML, JSON, and images). The goal is to make it easier to package up posts and move them between systems or back them up.

@manton – maybe we should have a conversation about that, because anything with that kind of name should be some kind of a consensus, imho.

@dave @manton I would like to be part of this conversation.

@cdevroe @dave I welcome input. I wanted to pick a name that was generic because right now there are too many formats that are tied to specific platforms. Tumblr, Ghost, Mastodon, Substack all have completely different archive formats that (I think) are unsuitable for broad support.

@manton – i came up with something like this in 2002 called RSS 2.0, and this is specifically provided for in the source namespace. i think it’s important if you want lots of support in something like this to not “welcome input” rather “steal from the best.” ;-)

@manton I was going to say what @dave said. I’d use RSS and HTML. RSS to be digestible by computers, HTML to be viewable by humans.