I have a hard question: I had registered my current nickname here an "the others" long time ago, but after me coming back I had to re-register myself as if I have never been here. So, if a server falls down, are our posts, identities felt down as if we had never existed on this site? I can see a higher weakness if this is true...Anybody knows?
@vielbein Yes. Though some other instances might cache the posts from that instance, but that's not a guarantee.
I was on mastodon.host until it broke down. Everything's gone and I simply continued on Qoto.org.
If you want to have everything in control, you can start your own instance and manage your own posts and create your own backups.
In fact, it'd be great if organizations would host their own instances and have their employees on there (and be automatically verified because only employees can belong to that instance's domain).
That way the organization would ensure that they will never go down and never let the information get lost.
That's the power of federation.
@davoloid @vielbein Yeah, I had an university email.
As soon as I was not a student anymore I lost it.
Just move on. Have some backup account somewhere, host your own, et cetera.