> As a user, I wouldn't want to sign up on someone's hobbyist bookwyrm instance only for them to shut it down later and lose all my data. Mastodon goes around

> As a user, I wouldn't want to sign up on someone's hobbyist bookwyrm instance only for them to shut it down later and lose all my data. Mastodon goes around this problem by only linking to servers that adhere to their covenant[0], which includes sane stuff like daily backups, >1 person with access to the server, minimum of 3 months notice before shutdown, and moderation. So, any community you see here[1] promises to give you a notice. I'm assuming other software will eventually reach the number of servers where something similar makes sense to implement. [0] https://joinmastodon.org/covenant https://joinmastodon.org/covenant [1] https://joinmastodon.org/communities https://joinmastodon.org/communities