backfill

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backfill is the action of importing all your past posts, typically from a social media silo, into your own site.

Indieweb Examples

Chris Aldrich has used import to backfill posts from past silo sites including WordPress.com, Posterous, and Twitpic amongst others.
Peter Molnar has written about some of his backfill work as well as his reasons why.
Anthony Ciccarello used a custom script to backfill Instagram posts from a combination of the Instagram export and website scraping in June 2022
Jonathan LaCour has written about backfilling from Facebook and Instagram
- 2018年03月05日 Jonathan LaCour : Freeing Myself from Facebook (archived)
Kelson Vibber has backfilled posts from various silos, starting with smaller blog/community sites and continuing with LiveJournal, WordPress.com, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and so on.

ditchbook - a toolkit for taking a Facebook export and migrating selected content to your Micropub compatible website, including Micro.blog websites.

gist for extracting liked tweet URLs from tweetdeck — because as of 2022年11月19日, twitter archives don’t seem to be available.
Tweet Nest - archived software that is no longer maintained, but may be useful for a developer to fork and update

export - Includes methods and help for exporting from silos for backfill
import
post migration
Pro-tip: do not treat or implement backfilling or any kind of importing as posts as any kind of scripted or automated creating of posts. There's a huge difference between an author creating a post (e.g. via Micropub), and creating post entries directly into storage and rebuilding any indices or archive pages accordingly. Be sure to do the latter, not the former.