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Tattooed_MummyI've seen a few people ask what happens if the instance you are on closes down.
Tradition on Mastodon is that all the people on that instance are buried alive with the admin in a giant pyramid made of old phones and laptops. ๐ต
Dr. Sean Munger@Tattooed_mummy And the high priests dance around the pyramid in headdresses made of shards of circuit boards and old printer ribbons.
The Raccoon Pope 
John Francis@Tattooed_mummy plenty of lithium to navigate the afterlife without recharging
Gaina_Cee (She/Her).
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@Tattooed_mummy
Seems only right.
Seems only right.
Doug Massey@Tattooed_mummy I think youโre describing the bird appโฆ and they need to move on and redirect their followers before itโs a sinkholeโฆ
WorriedWart@Tattooed_mummy What happens to our internal organs?
William Brooks is not extinct@WorriedWart61 @Tattooed_mummy
They are laid out around you in geometric patterns, from which a tree will grow, embodying your soul for hundreds of years.
Pretty cool, actually.
Sara Wasson
Annamal@WorriedWart61 @Tattooed_mummy preserved using an artisan pickle recipe and stored in carefully labelled jars
Ryan Fischer@Tattooed_mummy tough but fair.
parkplusplus@Tattooed_mummy (still clicks accept on license agreement)
Cllr Moray Grant@Tattooed_mummy been here 15 mins: whatโs an โinstanceโ?!
ZeborahMastodon is made up of multiple sites / servers / instances. Eg you're on mastodon.scot and I'm on mastodon.nz, while @Tattooed_mummy is on wandering.shop
Alan Tupper, Alleged Artist@zeborah @MorayGrant @Tattooed_mummy Just to elaborate, these various servers swap messages back and forth to let users with accounts on different instances to talk with each other
Chedim@MorayGrant @Tattooed_mummy like an email server, but for toots.
I Am@MorayGrant a mastodon server
MoritzCompared to Twitter, being one central platform containing all user accounts, Mastodon is decentralized, so many smaller & independently administered servers with a few thousand users each will communicate to realize a multi-million-user-network. Your server/instance is mastodon.scot
๐ณ@MorayGrant @Tattooed_mummy it's the mastodon server
Georg Arne Spenden@MorayGrant @Tattooed_mummy The opposite of a stance.
Deanna Kreisel@Tattooed_mummy "Choose carefully"
Idiot/Savant@Tattooed_mummy Surely we all have to lay down to die in a cave somewhere, or on the Siberian tundra?
Dan (he/him)@Tattooed_mummy just like I planned it
unfunk@Tattooed_mummy I mean, that's probably what's going to end up happening to me anyway, sooooo ๐คทโโ๏ธ
๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐๐๐@Tattooed_mummy Then @Gargron weighs your heart against a feather to decide if you get to reunite with your ancestors in the afterlife.
RaevenNZ@Tattooed_mummy well that escalated quickly ๐๐๐
Lou Tenant@Tattooed_mummy The top of the sarcophagus is traditionally made of Nokias to avoid the dead from being able to break free from their confines should they rise. Frankly, it's the best zombie outbreak prevention method we've seen.
@Tattooed_mummy @LouTenant *nods sagely* the Nokias would be an infallible line
Paul Willett@Tattooed_mummy Ah, good to see that weโre returning to the olde waysโฆ
LAUREN
Elisabeth Revans@Tattooed_mummy I Eek! I hope the you can keep the toot.community afloat under the influx of new users, @jorijn!
SuperTran@Tattooed_mummy There is one dot matrix printer at the entrance that just prints over and over, โThis place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is hereโฆโ
@Tattooed_mummy @Supertran this is best comment
Superball@Supertran @Tattooed_mummy I can hear it.
Gareth Kitchen@Tattooed_mummy Which is why it's important to backup your account periodically (under Settings/Preferences).
That way to can restore to a new instance bringing all your followers and everything else with you. :)
justkiddingjeez@Tattooed_mummy what is an โinstance.โ?
@Tattooed_mummy The pyramids of Toot and CarMoon.
jadepearl@Tattooed_mummy I am sending my shabti figurines to serve this ziggurat of goods.
Jesse Brown@jerry So, what is our life expectancy?
James Slezak@Tattooed_mummy seems excessive
Eva Marinus@Tattooed_mummy I hope they give us a timely heads-up so that we can jump ship (migrate to another server) before it happens ๐
VermistA@Tattooed_mummy This happened to me and I am now a ghost, haunting another instance
quokka ๐ฆ๐บ@Tattooed_mummy they've loosened that up a bit then. Round our way it's still common to burn all immediate family. And their cats.
Heike Naumann@Tattooed_mummy Love it! ๐
Neukanzler@Tattooed_mummy thatโs a great way to go!
@Tattooed_mummy <Nokia hidden in base starts ringing>
@scherzoprod @Tattooed_mummy ๐น๐น๐น
PhantaNews โ
@Tattooed_mummy Reminder to myself: set up an instance
Bastian Blankenburg ๐ค ๐ก@Tattooed_mummy Finally a reasonable take on this problem.
Alan Wright ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฒ@Tattooed_mummy well I mean - it sounds a cosy fate? :)
Author-ized L.J.@Tattooed_mummy shh! They weren't supposed to know!! ๐ค
Em Nightfall ๐ฅ
JasonDWS 
@Tattooed_mummy I'm ok with that. ๐
Longwing@Tattooed_mummy This is patently untrue!
A surprisingly lifelike clay effigy is buried along with the admins. Each effigy holding the phone or laptop used to interact with the instance.
People need to stop referring to the older academic research on this topic. I know the "buried alive" thing is widely taught in server-lifecycle courses, but there's been new research into the field of social network archeology. In this talk I will...
Stormy Gleason@Tattooed_mummy โToot-unkamenโโs cautionary tale