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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I thought this might be of interest to other users as well as admins.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting question. At the time being, I think the only way is to do regular backups and store them at a friends for example. That way an instance can be restored after the server has been taken.

Really the only way is to not save anything, or perhaps some sort of blockchain for all the comments and posts?

Blockchain is an interesting thought - or maybe something similar to Matrix. All instances have their own copy of a post and sync with each other. That way it doesn't matter if one instance disappears. Though, that would probably not comply with the Fediverse idea? Interesting thought experiment non the less!