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

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[–] M33@piefed.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] M33@piefed.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] M33@piefed.world 4 points 10 hours ago

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