I want to migrate my photos from instagram to pixelfed. Is it possible to modify post addition date? Or only way is to self host own instance and modify on database?

If it the only way, I would be happy to donate to existing one and ask admins to change dates… I dont see the point of creating new one

Post dating publications: don't know if the others fediverse instances will understand what you are doing (?).

Pretty sure no admin in the world would like to mess with their database and instance integrity plus potential side effects on the federation.

You may try it in your own lab at first. Something like in a local VM on your own computer, selfhost pixelfed, ask chatgpt how to overwrite publications date and see what happen.

It's not postdating. OP is talking about preserving dates from another platform, even if it means manually editing.

And that would set dates in the past, to match the dates from original publications on instagram, wouldn't it ?

@Kkk2237pl What ablut Just reposting them with note pointing to their original post date and location.

Ah I see what happened here. We are talking about the same thing, but "postdate" means just the opposite. It's setting a date in the future, not past. That would be "backdate."

Oh, my bad. I used postdate but I want to say backdate… 🫢

There's already a feature request for that: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2871

So far, I only know of GotoSocial that allows backdating new posts. And it even has a "gallery" theme that you can set as default to get something remotely similar to Pixelfed.

When I migrated to Pixelfed, I imported a backup that was exported from Instagram. It correctly read all the data and the imported posts had the correct original date and captions and everything. Looking at my profile now on pixelfed.social, the import is disabled by admin. So maybe there's an instance that has the import enabled.

Manually backdating is one thing, but importing them from Instagram with the original timestamp is a different. That's why #2871 is still open and #4558 was closed as "not planned", I guess.

Yesterday I tried to import from Instagram at several Pixelfed instances. Most of them disabled it, one was returning error

Are there other android apps for Pixelfed, other than the official Pixelfed app?

On android pixelix and pixeldroid