Deborah PickettDec 7, 2022

Your Fedi account is probably run by a volunteer on a server with no Service Level Agreement. Downtime happens! Failures happen.

You should plan for outages by having another account on a server operated by someone else. Even if it’s just the mastodon.social account that you first signed up for. You can leave it dormant and redirected until disaster strikes.

You can cross-verify your two (or more) Mastodon accounts by putting the URL of one account into the four metadata fields of the other account. Don’t forget the https:// prefix!

Show threadvertikarDec 7, 2022
@futzle that raises an interesting question, that @aussocialadmin maybe able to answer, is aus.social and theblower.au on the same provider and separate enough to be used as backups? Or am i better off being on a bigger backup instance?
Show threadSuperMoosieDec 7, 2022

@vertikar @futzle @aussocialadmin

Is a backup account just going to add more pressure/costs to the server admins, for no real advantage?

I mean one person having a second account might not be much, but there are 8 million mastodon accounts, if you encourage them all to get a second account.....

Show threadDeborah PickettDec 7, 2022
@SuperMoosie @vertikar @aussocialadmin A dormant account that doesn’t follow many users and isn’t followed by many users uses hardly any space and hardly any network. Tens of kilobytes plus an avatar image. It’s a rounding error for most servers.
Show threadvertikar
@futzle @SuperMoosie @aussocialadmin i guess then ideally you'd export your followers from your main server every so often in case there's an extended outage.
and also in case your main server crashes and burns. not suggesting that aus.social will do that though
Dec 7, 2022 at 10:50amWeb