@alwynispat Thank you for the feedback — I am 100% with you on that. It would be better that way. Tasks like export and import could be set as a low-priority background job that only runs when resources are available, for example. There would be other advantages, too, like perhaps being able to preserve timestamps and/or even edit history.
One of my hopes for this tool is that it nudges Mastodon to building comparable functionality into core. It would be better for everyone.
@tokyo_0 playing around with the db is no joke 😅