• Kotton@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I was on a mastodon server and the owner decided it was not worth his money to keep running. He did not inform anyone on the server or allow any account backups and all was lost.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      With federated services, I feel like it’s somewhat important to get to know the admins of the server you use. You don’t have to be best friends, but at least know their name, motivation for running the server, and how it’s funded.

    • onlyforthisair@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There should be a service or extension or something like that that performs regular backups for you. Of course, lemmy needs to implement a backup/transfer feature first.