Hi,
I want to suggest a concept to solve the issue losing our data when an instance shut down. Maybe it already exist.
Problem
When an instance shutdown, you have no way to recovert your account and export your blocklist, subcription…It is too late and lost. You have to start it again, who prepared a backup ? Almost no one because its design was flawed.
Idea
The only solution would be nomadic identity.
I think we, the fediverse, can create a sync app on our computer. Here is the concept :
- flatpak for linux distro agnostic
- fediapp agnostic. we want to support every free software fedi app.
We install it on our computer. Then click on a plus button to add our fedi accounts.
It will ask for 2-3 fields :
- username
- password
- generated-token (not sure if it is useful, security ?)
Then it will sync on our local computer : blocklist, followers, subscription, setting… maybe encrypted for increased security
Later, we can imagine other features as :
- master account
- merging blocklist, subcription between selected account
- exporting posts, comments…
- managing account settings
- mobile app
- support of apple and windows
What do you think ? Can we achieve that ?
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I am working on this. I have a local post archive that syncs with bluesky accounts. I am using DIDs as the primary identifier, and hope to incorporate activitypub and rss soon under the same identifier. I have also created a social graph importer for walled garden sites, such as facebook/instagram, so folks have an escape hatch for all their legacy social media history, and a way to manage exported files in a nice file browser format. I will have something to share in the near future, but suffice it to say, I think storing your data locally is an idea very worth pursuing.
Cool ! great this tool exist :)
There is only lemmy
and it miss exporting to our computer.for now :)Edit : i think we can export it to computer
