So basically what I want to build now is something where you can take your Mastodon export, and then turn it into a static website, prefixing all your posts as if they were fedi posts.

Les Orchard

@oliphant Hopefully it does some things you want? It's very much a work in progress. But, I was trying to build it such that templating & styles should be pluggable & hackable

And written in Rust, because I figured that might help it work as a standalone little tool. (and not golang, because I didn't feel like golang when I started it)

Oliphantom Menace

@lmorchard I'm definitely going to have to play with this a bit, especially if I can ever get Mastodon to actually generate my enormous export.

Les Orchard

@oliphant Hopefully this "quick start" still tells the truth

Quick Start - Fossilizer

(lmorchard.github.io)

Oliphantom Menace

@lmorchard Well it's like, a website shuts down with 3 users on it, and those 3 users want to be able to host a static site of their posts at the old domain, I think that would be pretty neat.

And a sort of 'archive.org' version of this running that accepted uploads from anyone so anyone could link to their old mastodon account would be kinda keen, too.

Les Orchard

@oliphant Oh and it's kind of stale, but I just remembered I shoved an archive of my toots onto github pages as a example

Fossilizer Index

(lmorchard.github.io)

Oliphantom Menace

@lmorchard The thing that I guess is lacking, or at least the way I imagined it, was a permalink for individual toots. You've got a permalink back to the original toot, but otherwise on the static site, things are organized by day.