#howtomast — Public Fediverse posts

@News Sure, downloading your mastodon archive is one way to get all of the pictures you uploaded, but it doesn’t show the posts themselves.

But on Aethy, I discovered there’s another way that does! And it’s much faster than waiting for your archive to be ready. Just click your user icon. Choose” Show Replies” to include all of your conversations. And then just scroll… ALL THE WAY DOWN until see your very first post. I just hold the END key on my keyboard until the scrolling stops. Then go to File > Save (or press CTRL+S) Choose “Web Page, complete (.html)” And this will save a single HTML file and a folder containing every picture you posted inside it.

Opening the HTML in a browser will look messy at first, but all of your posts are in there. To make it look right, just modify the HTML to use the “common-828f2b22.chunk.css” file. Then it will look perfect when you open it.

This only seems to work on Aethy. Other mastodon instances un-load images as soon as they scroll off screen, making it hard to save them.

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