downloaded all my toots with #mastodonpy: gonna train a neural net on myself and recursively self-improve until I get the perfect toot
@shel turns out it's just "jorts"
BUT THEN
when you DO have it
it's THIS TOOT EXACTLY
*Twilight Zone music*
TOM STARES IN SHOCK AS OTHERS GASP AT THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPUTERS.
Rod Serling: Another sunset on another world, one we made with our own tools -- yet still, somehow, part of the Twilight Zone.
[END CREDITS]
@sydneyfalk this toot is doing much better numbers than almost all my other toots actually, it could be the one!!
O_O OH SHIT
SYDNEY BACKS AWAY FROM HER COMPUTER, COVERING HER MOUTH, QUIVERING, UNTIL FINALLY SHE BEGINS TO SCREAM.
*Twilight Zone music*
Rod Serling: A storyteller surfing from fiction to fiction, only to find that the beach she finally lands upon -- is in the Twilight Zone.
[END CREDITS]
WE SEE GARGRON HARD AT WORK AT HIS OWN COMPUTER, ONLY TO FLINCH, AND TURN AROUND, STARING INTO THE CAMERA.
GARGRON: Wait. What --
*Twilight Zone music*
GARGRON: Oh, for fuck's sake.
Rod Serling: The man behind the curtain, pulling levers and plugging in wires, hoping for a better outcome, a better world. His hopes may still lead there -- but they have undoubtedly crossed over, for now, into -- the Twilight Zone.
[END CREDITS]
@tomharris I've been wondering about a way to backup/export my toots. How does that thing work?
@ultimape @tomharris
Haven't tried it yet, but on the Mastodon API, under Accounts [0], getting an account's statuses is supported via
GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses
I don't know if there's an automated way to do that though.
[0] https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/API.md#accounts
I used the python wrapper for the api here: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
First I created an API instance according to the example there, then I just repeatedly called the Mastodon.account_statuses method with successively lower max_id, adding any new toots to a dict (of the form {toot_id : toot_text}) as I went. Then I wrote the toots to a file.
There's probably a better way to do it, but this naive method worked for me.
@tomharris please keep us updated