I lost access to my Mastodon instance last Friday, and while the site is finally back up, it still seems broken.
There was no sticky warning on the app of the host migration or updates, so I've no clue what's going on.
It looks like I shall have to move instances again, even though the move from mstdn.media (shut down with no reason given) to qoto.org lost me 80 followers (fediblocking?).
I've set up an account on federated.press, which is specifically for journalists, and will set about migrating followers and followed lists.
Our version number has no relationship to mastodon, we are a fork of mastodon, we maintain our version number independently from them and it in no way gives any indication of security.
We have generally in the past been ahead of mastodon (often by years) on both security and features