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kensanata / mastodon-archive

Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API (i.e. login required)
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Mastodon_Archive
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Consider making --with-followers and --with-following on by default? #94

Closed fasiha closed 1 year ago

fasiha commented 1 year ago

Important background: I just accidentally unfollowed a ton of follows (messing with the API) and am slapping my forehead because my mastodon-archive runs were done without these two flags. So my request may be very biased 😅.

Would it be reasonable to turn these two flags on by default, assuming they're not a burden on the server?

kensanata commented 1 year ago

If they are anything like the other calls, the data gets fetched in batches of 40 each. I'm assuming the burden is not terrible, but it's definitely not zero. I also don't think the come in an order we can rely on, so we always fetch all of them, not just the updates.

So… I'm not sure.

kensanata commented 1 year ago

I guess it would be cool to write a command that recreates the list of followers based on the messages you wrote, assuming you mentioned each one of them at least once?

fasiha commented 1 year ago

Ah I see! Given the non-negligible load this imposes on the server, maybe it's best this isn't on by default. Thanks for consideration!

assuming you mentioned each one of them at least once

Alas I'm one of these people who follow others without interacting with them 😓