You guys are still using the same email?

I'll try liftoff later today, if that helps

And it happens again, different posts

3 month? I've been getting 2 year old posts as Hot.

I'll add to all this excellent advice by emphasising on keeping good offline backups and up-to-date backups of everything, especially password manager, 2FA seed code and any recovery codes/keys/phrase (if kept outside of your password manager).

Keep backups off-site too. Have a plan for the wosrt case.

Edit: formatting.

The camera person is walking both of them

Use Mastodon or any decentralised platform responsibly is the way, in my opinion. If you can run your own instance, that will likely lead to better control over your data but does't mean others servers won't see it. that is the nature of these platforms by design.

Don't put trust in anyone for it. When you make an account, go through the settings and adjust them based on what you are comfortable with. Use an alias name and email, of course. opt out of search engine appearances, or even social graph. Hide people you follow and that follow you. Adjust the settings of each post based on what it is as well.

End of the day, you will need to trust the person running the instance to do good enough management of the infrastructure. Use a server with active and transparent admin and it's not too large to manage for them.

I'm going with the flow for now, the bean flow lol

Mastodon is a viable option, but then again, this app does some basic automatic account creation from existing FB data and follow people from it. This alone will impress some non-tech journalist and praise it. We have become too lazy to get out of the burning house and save our life.

I wonder if any of that break some GPDR or California Data laws.

The database if still out there, go get it. Put it in our preferred torrent client and keep it. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ulfihylx35oldftn7qosmk6hkhsjq5af

If only I had a phone with SD card slot.

I had a good hearty laugh thanks to your comment.