Gregory's Server
@stefan I’m not sure that’s actually entirely true. I for one do not know what happens to my data on the various fediverse instances I’m on. I settle for “oh, I know some of the social.coop key people and I trust them” but then, my trust may be misplaced and I cannot be certain all people who, say, have access to the backup tapes are even qualified to understand how to handle them properly.
@J12t You make a good point.
I actually started my own server, because I wanted to change my username on mastodon.social, and the signups were closed at the time.
And I wasn't too interested in researching admins and owners of each instance to see where I should move next.
For me, fediverse does give me this kind of control, but arguably this comes with an actual monetary price, plus required technical knowledge (less so with the various managed hosting providers, but you still have to pay).