@Teri_Kanefield

It is simply wrong of that journalist to claim this was a risk specific to Mastodon.

ANY online service can delete your content without warning.

This happens to people on Google who inexplicably lose access to their Gmail or YouTube accounts, for example. And there's usually no appeal or recourse.

Even the biggest social networks in the world that have received billions in funding can lose all their content by accident:

theguardian.com/technology/201

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@Teri_Kanefield

I would say Mastodon gives you MORE protection from losing data, not less.

You can set up your own server for approx US$10 a month without technical knowledge or equipment, and then you will be the one who decides when it shuts down.

This option simply doesn't exist on centralised services like Twitter, Google, Facebook etc. They are making you entirely dependent on them, and at their mercy.

On Mastodon and the Fediverse, you can take control for yourself.

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Tim Erickson, @stpaultim

@feditips @Teri_Kanefield

This is all true, but it's doing a misservice to the public to suggest that the risk is the same.

If you are using a small indepententlly hosted server on Mastodon the likelyhood of the sole admin burning out or disappearing due to life changes is vastly greater.

Yes, you can mitigate those risks by joining a larger server or managing your own. But, I think we need to be clear about the risks of the decentralized module as well as the rewards.

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beSpacific

@feditips @Teri_Kanefield it is possible to download an archive of your posts on Mastodon, yes?

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