This is sick! But… how can you backdate a note?
Introducing EXIT
You broke up with your ex; it wasn’t treating you well, maybe it was shadow banning you or your friends; it was manipulating you into becoming your worst possible self.
But over the years you accrued a bunch of quality shitposts, and perhaps some nuggets of wisdom.
Introducing: https://exit.pub:
The last bridge you’ll need to port over your data into the new world of decentralized freedom-tech.
1. Download your twitter archive
2. If Elon agrees, you’ll get a zip file; uncompress it and just use exit.pub to import your data into nostr
✅ original dates are used; whatever you posted in 2009 will show up as posted in nostr in 2009
✅ granular control of which tweets to import (threads, non-replies, replies)
✅ V4V, you choose how much your shitposts are worth
✅ it *should* preserve embedded images
✅ granular control of which relays you want to publish to
Try it out:
Discussion
The created_at field just holds the Unix Epoch of when the note was created. A client can set that to whatever it wants, and most relays will accept posts from the past.
That makes sense, but also the implications are kind of scary 😂
I wonder if there’s a way to leverage Open Timestamps or similar, to prove the ~blockheight of when something was posted. Maybe a service that aggregates and merkelizes a bunch of notes, and puts some piece of data on chain.
Why is that scary, specifically. I ask because I don’t see it.
The implication is that you could post anything as though it were posted in the past, and point to it as evidence, etc
That is an interesting possibility. I’d be interested in the trade offs. There is utility to being able to post date events as well.