@freemo Please confirm that Quey has a back-up strategy to ensure that users don't lose everything in case of an emergency or shutting down. -- see §2 https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
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It is important for users to
have the confidence that a
trip over the power cable or
a rogue bit flip will not erase
all of their data. Having a
backup strategy is a basic
necessity of providing a
public service
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Humblr did disappear this month. We don't know what happened, but the result is very much like the explicit circumstances contemplated in §2 -- an event "erase[d] all of [our] data."
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More significant is the fact that Humblr's relationships vanished without notice
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Humblr was a social media site; and this means that Humblr was about more than just an archive of images and words.
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Humblr was about people and the links between us which were forged slowly over time.
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If Mastodon is about "taking back control of your social media", then it means asking reasonable questions based on the Mastodon Covenant.
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QOTO is also a social media site, so these issues are timely and appropriate and prudent
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Reasonable questions about QOTO need clear and reasonable responses.
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?

@chikara Why are you asking me to confirm things about other servers I do not run? you need to ask the owners of those servers.

@freemo I've only asked you about this Mastodon instance.
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I was shocked when a spokesman refused to confirm that there is a Mastodon.social commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down.
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With all due respect, this means that a core element of the Mastodon Covenant is not credible. This means that everyone who read and relied on the specifics of the Covenant were wrong to do so.
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That's a big problem.
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Although @LuigiEsq@mastodon.social spoke on behalf of another instance, he was claiming to speak on behalf of the core organizers of the Mastodon network.
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This astonishing admission opens the door to corollary issues which I have now raised with with you.
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With regret, I see that you haven't responded to my explicit inquiries about §2 and §3 of the Mastodon Covenant. Please set my mind at ease with your reply.
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Reasonable questions about QOTO need clear responses.
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?