data exports

[kossai]

unsure if these go out to everyone all at once , or roll out in waves , but just in case anyone miss : cohost data export is live .
this export contain :

• asks which send out to other users , anonymous ones as well
• notes which leave on other user profiles
• all posts from each page - which include timestamps , but come wrap in json that need strip to post elsewhere
• personal comments from all posts - not full threads
• personal additions to reblog shares - not full threads
• profile information of all followers from each page
• profile information of everyone who personally block from pages
• as promise , " find your friends " files which include contact information of everyone in following list - not followers

hopefully this is helpful if wonder what data export would contain ( if not able to access yet ) , or if just miss email . :)

Comments

[kossai]

to speculate on why would have profile notes and blocks among exports :
could see use of this to avoid those people on other platforms . sort of question logic even then - if there might be somewhat more harm done from this than good - but , export come as export come , right now .

[onlyknownothing]

I honestly think that's included because this is literally just a database dump of everything associated with each user profile. A lot of this appears to be direct "this is what the front-end calls from the back end when loading this part of the site" stuff, including actual variable values and things, and so I think that wound up in there simply because they pulled everything user-facing just in case someone winds up with some reason it's useful.

The only thing I see which actually has formatting attached is the "find-your-friends" function they included, which is clearly assembled as a way to make the raw data more accessible to people (and is a nice touch, I'm glad they did that). Everything else appears to literally be a "call" to the database which returns everything associated with your username - that's probably why there isn't the linked content from comments and rechosts, since those aren't associated with your individual user ID in the back-end.

(Sorry, this is kind of complex. To put it more simply and discard the jargon: they didn't do any formatting to most of this compilation, they just asked the database for everything with your "name" on it and put it all together. That's why there isn't any linked context for most of it. Which makes sense, because they had to compile one of these for every user and they're not getting paid at this point for anything cohost-related. It's honestly kind of them to include things like the profile information of the people we were following, since that's not actually linked to our own usernames and required extra database queries to make work for each export. And especially the formatted page for people who don't know how to parse the raw data easily. Somebody did that for free just because they were being nice to everybody.)

[kossai]

all fair enough ! suppose not really know enough about internal structures of these things .
really appreciate explanation <3

[onlyknownothing]

You're welcome!

[wintersouls]

thanks for letting us know, kossai! <3

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's a great description. Might you be willing to copy it on newcomers? Nobody has posted there about the data exports yet.

Re: Thank you!

[kossai]

done !