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Sad for all those accounts on #MedMastodon after the server disappeared. I hope this make it even more clear that #mastodon needs way to let users own the data and allow it to be easily ported between servers.

People don't feel safe on small servers or often don't understand how easily it can disappear.

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in reply to Stefan

the other option is that people could stop depending on a random stranger to run a server for them.
in reply to Evan Prodromou

@evan perhaps. though even a well known active server admin can drop dead and the server shut down before folks know what has happened.
in reply to Stefan

so, like I said, having someone you don't know, with whom you have no connection, run your server, means you don't have much recourse if they decide to shut down.

Having a server run by your employer, your university, a membership organization, your city, or a SaaS provider means you've got some idea that it's going to be there next week.

We have a system of low affinity between server operators and users.

in reply to Evan Prodromou

@evan I wonder what is the best way for users to fully grasp those trade offs? I don't know how much folks think about it. certainly moments like this might bubble up but who knows.
in reply to Stefan

I don't know either. It might be something we need to encourage people to do at signup time. "Does your employer have a server? Does your university have a server? Are you a member of the ACM, or SDF? Can you pay $6/month for a hosting service? Want to join a cooperative like social.coop? OK, if *none of those things* is true, here is a list of servers that provide open registration to the public for free, on a best-effort basis."

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in reply to Evan Prodromou

@evan I could also imagine a 3rd party that gave servers a resilience rating of some kind. Not an absolute fix but frame work to talk about level of commitment. The Server Covenant is a great start but not well monitored.

joinmastodon.org/covenant

in reply to Stefan

@evan FWIW we're aware of the limitations of the Server Covenant and have some ideas on next steps / improvements there. Planning to have more to talk about in this topic space very soon.
in reply to Evan Prodromou

@Evan Prodromou @Stefan However, we have created an activitypub group @MedMastodon to allow orphaned #medmastodon users to find each other.
poliverso.org/profile/medmasto…

In the future, it will be appropriate for doctors to rely on referenced instances or to commit to having themselves or their organizations create their own instances.

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