Gregory's Serverif you are at all able (or able to learn), i highly recommend:
• creating your own website
• on your own domain
• acquiring copies of your data that you care about that's on third party sites (particularly twitter)
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  @molly0xfff I don't really think it's for everyone, but it is a good thing if you're so inclined (or have good friends who can help). @privacat @molly0xfff After first setting up on an instance (one of the few accepting new signupns during the last big wave) run by a virulent antivaxxer, I ended up setting up my own on a Raspberry Pi and a domain I've owned "just because" for several years. @IzzoD @molly0xfff I opted for hosting (on Infomaniak) largely because my home internet connection is flakey as hell, but it is lovely. :) @privacat @molly0xfff I'll certainly quickly run into issues if I were to decide to let anyone else sign up. I figure the Pi can handle at best 5-10 accounts max. @privacat @molly0xfff anyone who has been on the web for any period of time has lost content due to a service shutting down, so you get an additional level of safety by rolling your own. @seanreiser 🙃  @privacat @seanreiser @molly0xfff  @molly0xfff I like closure. I deleted my Twitter, and am trying to remember to back up my Mastodon weekly. Apparently I need to run my own instance to import the historical post feed I downloaded though. Or at least my instance wouldn't let me do it. (Metadata like follow and block list yes, post history no.) @molly0xfff I am much more willing to be a chaos gremlin on Mastodon when I have this account where y'all don't know who I am on hachyderm. :P It is also freeing. @hopeful_discovery i've heard good things about ghost! i used it maybe a decade ago so i can't personally vouch for it these days  |
i am much more willing to be a chaos gremlin on twitter knowing i have my own platform-of-one to fall back on, and it's freeing