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De-facebooking


On Friday I finally deleted my Twitter account. I also exported my entire Facebook history and imported it into my Wordpress blog (in draft form). And I did that twice-- once into my wordpress.com account, and then into my main blog account. The Facebook transfer-to-Wordpress only works with a wordpress.com blog, so I had to move everything there then export/import it into my own blog.

The import into wordpress.com meant I have over 6,000 entries to delete. And since I don't have direct access to the database and can't install plugins with a free account, I'm basically stuck deleting them 20 posts at a time. I've deleted over 800 posts, just 5,647 to go.....

Wordpress also errors out on every deletion, so I don't always know that it's successful. It's.... an interesting choice for enshittification, let me just say.

The next step will be cleanup which, frankly, might never happen. Over 6,000 posts to review, and most of them are things like "welp, gonna do that today" with zero context, lol.

in reply to Stephanie Bryant

Hm, interesting - does it work with a free WordPress account as well?

It's a slow process, but my plan is to leave Facebook later this year, and if it's possible to have my ramblings there instead of "just as a file", then I might try that.

(Then again, I haven't used my WordPress-account for ... a long time?, so I probably have to re-learn stuff there.)

in reply to phle

Yes, I have a free wordpress.com account, and it worked fine!

I don't think it handled photos well going from Wordpress.com to my blog. I would suggest exporting directly to a photo app for that, like Google Photos or similar.

in reply to Stephanie Bryant

Oh, nice - I'll be giving that a try then! 👍
(February is clean-up month.)