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Mastodon admins and techy people, do you want to backfill missing posts that haven't federated to you yet?

There's a new tool for this called FediFetcher:

➑️ blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher

Bear in mind it's still very new and requires tech skills, read the github at github.com/nanos/FediFetcher

The script runs independently of your server, but needs an access token from each user that it backfills for.

Thanks to @nellie_m for highlighting this!

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Mastodon #Fediverse #Backfilling

11 comments
Alkaline Selkie

@homegrown @nellie_m wait, I don't understand why this is necessary - doesn't #Mastodon automatically fetch required posts?

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@eviee @nellie_m

Mastodon only fetches posts in certain circumstances:

fedi.tips/which-posts-and-acco

Mastodon does not currently "backfill", which can cause problems.

For example if there's an account on another server, and you're the first person on your server to follow it, and no one on your server has ever interacted with it or seen its posts shared, it may appear totally blank.

The same thing may happen in conversations with missing replies, if they are not replying to you directly.

@eviee @nellie_m

Mastodon only fetches posts in certain circumstances:

fedi.tips/which-posts-and-acco

Mastodon does not currently "backfill", which can cause problems.

For example if there's an account on another server, and you're the first person on your server to follow it, and no one on your server has ever interacted with it or seen its posts shared, it may appear totally blank.

Axel Rauschmayer

@homegrown It’s great that someone is working on this! Mastodon’s biggest weakness at the moment, as far as I can tell. For replies, it’d be nice if the UI could support incrementally backfilling more posts.

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@rauschma

Yes, indeed, it would be nice if there was an "update" button on profiles, and/or if such updates happened automatically when people follow an account or take part in a thread.

Daniel

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @nellie_m@autisticpri.de Actually Fedifetcher wasn't made for admins. Every user has to create a access token for themselves and setup some kind of cronjob or Github action.

There is support for multiple users in theory, but every user would have to give on person/admin their access key:
https://blog.thms.uk/2023/04/muli-user-support-for-fedifetcher

Ivan Milovanov

@homegrown @nellie_m

@redegelde Maybe You are interested? Sure would make the experience even more seamless.

Taglar

@homegrown
This is why I love to use #mastodon with #fedilab on #android and I wish and would love this function will one day be implemented into the Server.
@nellie_m

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@homegrown If you're on managed hosting, you can (and probably should) use relays, the built-in tool for this!

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