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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 22:07:04 JST dansup

   • Pixelfed

   So in case you aren't aware, the reason why the Import from Instagram feature in @PixelFed is so tricky is for two main reasons:

   1) You don't actually upload the archive, it's unzipped and parsed client side, so you only upload the photos/videos and captions that you select

   2) Instagram changes the json structure every few months, just to fuck with us

   But just to take a step back, when you import, your DMs and other private data is never uploaded

   The code is auditable https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/resources/assets/components/AccountImport.vue#L413-L458

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     Rosano (rosano@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 22:44:53 JST Rosano

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     • Pixelfed

     @dansup @pixelfed i just tried and it seems to ignore reels, wondering if it's part of point 2) or by design

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 22:44:53 JST dansup

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     • Pixelfed

     @rosano @PixelFed reels were not out when this was written