I'm thinking about this because I saw a Mastodon server of eight and a half years shutting down, which is leaving its migrating users in a very awkward position if they have years' worth of posts that are being lost.
It's not, to be clear, the server admin's fault - they don't control Mastodon's feature set. It's squarely the responsibility of Mastodon to supply the server migration tools necessary to resolve these problems for its users.
You know, the other thing I'm thinking is: as a community, we keep telling people to stay off mastodon.social. But if you signed up for mastodon.social in 2016 or 2017, it's one of the only options available that would still be working today with your full post history intact. If you signed up anywhere else, you've *probably* been through multiple migrations and lost your full posting history several times over.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://digipres.club/users/misty/statuses/115226504791043580 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
