If you are, or have ever been, a sysadmin, grab a bag of popcorn and cruise through this one. Thrills and chills! https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/
What happened to Vivaldi Social? | Thomas Pike’s other blog

A deep dive into the events of Saturday 8 July 2023, when user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance.

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@timbray I'm glad they were able to restore the accounts. I'm a Vivaldi browser user (for my work tasks) but was already active on a good server (ruby.social) when they started with Mastodon and didn't sign up.

As an amateur sysadmin, I've had a LOT of trouble with my own attempts at
#Mastodon/#Akkoma/#Pleroma/#GoToSocial server installation, and I can't imagine running it at such a high level.