You may have heard that the maintainer of med-mastodon.com, a large, prominent Mastodon server, recently decided to shut down the server without warning, leaving his users with no access to their data.
[EDIT: it's back up! Ref: mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145/11584…]
This could happen to you at any time.
If you care about this, you should be backing up your data regularly.
Here's a post I just wrote about how to do that, and about what you can do with your backed-up data.
#FediTips
blog.kamens.us/2026/01/02/the-…
[EDIT: it's back up! Ref: mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145/11584…]
This could happen to you at any time.
If you care about this, you should be backing up your data regularly.
Here's a post I just wrote about how to do that, and about what you can do with your backed-up data.
#FediTips
blog.kamens.us/2026/01/02/the-…
The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data
Your server or your Mastodon account could go away at any time. If you don’t want to lose your data, you should back it up. Here’s how to do that, and how to restore it later.Something better to do
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