@sneexy make sure any reverse proxy timeouts are DISABLED (the request blocks until the import completes) and. uhh. you have enough memory to hold the zip
@sneexy i wonder if the mastodon emoji format may be more efficient for Very Large Exports given there's no metadata (it just uses filenames for emoji names) and both tar and gzip are streamable
@pancakes@sneexy this requires copying the imported file's contents into memory because closing the request causes the file to get garbage collected. which. given we're talking about a 500mb import. im a bit hesitant to do