The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.

This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!

WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @medmastodon

If you follow this group, you can:

Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.

#MedMastodon

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[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They did.

There's almost hundreds of dead social media that inaccessible, some even have zero backups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 6 days ago

Oh, that reminds me of this list: https://indieweb.org/site-deaths