I am working on a new platform that allows import from facebook/instagram. This is a hard technical problem for the fediverse because you have to balance importing with not spamming everyone with those imports. It is an important feature though, and it's rather shocking that little to no fediverse platforms are utilizing the GDPR exports to their advantage.

[–] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Another platform? Isnt Pixelfed / Monnett enough? ;)

In the end I thought that I will just set up new own Pixelfed instance, and I will import everything and fix dates if needed

[–] lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus 1 points 23 hours ago

What I am building is more of a Facebook competitor than an Instagram competitor. If all you need is an Instagram like platform, then pixelfed should be fine.

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Gram.social is a good one, hosted in Germany with thebimpoet feature available. Its the largest server in Europe. And second largest from the instances according to pixelfed.org/servers

[–] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Im at Gram.social but I cant import anything

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cant import? I'm not an Instagram user but as far as I'm aware there is an option to do that at settings > import > Import from Instagram (hit the import button)

[–] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I tried that and I get an error.

Maybe ig changed structure of the files

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

That might be the thing; maybe others on this wonderful platform can help you further.