I've personally had to migrate instances twice. The first time because the instance suddenly became nonfunctional, and the administrator went AWOL. The second t

I've personally had to migrate instances twice. The first time because the instance suddenly became nonfunctional, and the administrator went AWOL. The second time, I discovered that the incompetent admin had silently enabled auto-deletion of data including posts and direct messages. Now I'm finally on mastodon.social, which wasn't open for new users the first two times that I needed an instance.