AmitDec 7, 2022
Deborah Pickett

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!

Dec 7, 2022 at 9:45amWeb
Show threadFridleyDec 7, 2022
@futzle Tempted to try to self host a backup account, but still a little daunted by the prospects....
Show threadDeborah PickettDec 7, 2022
@Fridley If you do, make sure it’s not a Schrödinger backup account. You don’t want to discover it doesn’t work when your main account is inaccessible. How would you ask for help?
Show threadFridleyDec 7, 2022
@futzle I am all for testing backups 🙂
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 threadAus.Social AdminDec 7, 2022
@vertikar @futzle we’re purposely on different providers. Good match for a backup
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 threadvertikarDec 7, 2022
@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
Show threadBernard SheppardDec 7, 2022

@futzle Great advice! Now I regret doing a migration before setting up the cross verify that you suggested. Ahh well, I'll sort that out, something for tomorrow, if I don't go and stand up my own instance :)

BTW, I recognised your name immediately from https://test-ipv6.com.au/ which was useful when I was first getting IPv6 working at home.

Test your IPv6.

This will test your browser and connection for IPv6 readiness, as well as show you your current IPv4 and IPv6 address.

Show threadDeborah PickettDec 7, 2022

@BernardSheppard Yep that’s me, IPv6 connected since 2010 thanks to Internode. 😊

You can cancel the redirect, set the cross-verifications, then add the redirect back (there’s a partly hidden “only redirect, don’t move followers” option), it should only take you ten minutes.

Show threadBernard SheppardDec 8, 2022
@futzle Just got myself @bj set up as an exercise those with too much time on my hands and a need to learn more sysadmin and docker. Now struggling with working out how to get that green tick working which should be simple.
Show threadPinkunz 🙃Dec 7, 2022

@futzle
@IFTF

Might be getting a second account if #IFTF sets up an instance. Set one or the other as a backup account as this post suggests.