• Blaze@discuss.online
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    10 months ago

    Importing posts and comments could cause a security risk if someone would to abuse that function.

    Even Mastodon doesn’t support it

    Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.

    https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

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      10 months ago

      More importantly it would make exports extremely large and would cause a lot of server load to import/export. Plus you would end up with duplicate posts and comments which seems like a bad idea.