> you had the option to do a weekly backup of yourself.
I would gladly do this, as I gladly back up the data on my own personal hard drive, but I had no idea I needed to do a weekly backup of my Mastodon data! Nobody warned Mastodon users that this kind of data loss was to be expected. By the time I found out, it was too late.
How many of the 1.8 million monthly active Mastodon users are doing weekly backups of their Mastodon data? When has Eugen Rochko or other Mastodon instance administrators ever advised Mastodon users to this?
You seem to be blaming the victims here. And again, it's not just me: every user of my old instance experienced the same data loss, whether they know it or not (likely not).
There's no "community" if the Mastodon instance administrators are not making crucial announcements to Mastodon users, not helping those users preserve their data. If anything, I have just performed a service to the Mastodon community by informing Mastodon users that their data is not safe on the instances.
Instead of properly warning users, they spread reassuringly false bromides like "It doesn't matter which Mastodon instance you join." As it turns out, this matters a lot.
I would gladly do this, as I gladly back up the data on my own personal hard drive, but I had no idea I needed to do a weekly backup of my Mastodon data! Nobody warned Mastodon users that this kind of data loss was to be expected. By the time I found out, it was too late.
How many of the 1.8 million monthly active Mastodon users are doing weekly backups of their Mastodon data? When has Eugen Rochko or other Mastodon instance administrators ever advised Mastodon users to this?
You seem to be blaming the victims here. And again, it's not just me: every user of my old instance experienced the same data loss, whether they know it or not (likely not).
There's no "community" if the Mastodon instance administrators are not making crucial announcements to Mastodon users, not helping those users preserve their data. If anything, I have just performed a service to the Mastodon community by informing Mastodon users that their data is not safe on the instances.
Instead of properly warning users, they spread reassuringly false bromides like "It doesn't matter which Mastodon instance you join." As it turns out, this matters a lot.