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   Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 02:10:42 JST Mastodon Migration

   Mastodon's Killer Feature - Data Permanence

   Lately there's been focus on the inherent anti-censorship advantages of Mastodon, but the potential for data permanence is also where the decentralized Fediverse shines.

   Some users, like academic and scientific communities, highly value knowing content will be available 5, 10, 20, even 50 years in the future.

   With Mastodon, institutions can host their own servers, ensuring independence from social media corporations to safeguard their data.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 02:10:40 JST Mastodon Migration

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     What's holding this back? People who use Mastodon quickly understand the principles of decentralization and server ownership, but to those who's only experience with social media is corporate platforms, the concept is a bit difficult to initially grasp. "It's like email..." sort of works, but by then they have kind of lost interest. Hopefully, this is changing.
     
     We should be promoting the idea of hosting Mastodon to these users with data permanence/ownership as the key feature.

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     Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor (pamelabarroway@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 02:10:40 JST Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor

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     @mastodonmigration 💯 this. People on Mastodon want this content, but it is difficult to convince some of that and to see the forest for the trees, as the saying goes.

     For example, I gave up trying to get the Sherrill campaign (NJ gubernatorial race) to have presence here, and am now asking them simply mirror the account here with BridgyFed which is stupid easy … like, literally follow the BridgyFed account on Bluesky. It is really frustrating.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 02:10:41 JST Mastodon Migration

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     If permanence is a priority, which of course it is for these communities, why depend on an unreliable corporation or other third party for this service? It would be a fairly trivial matter for some astronomical consortium or society to host a Fediverse server to insure that the content will be preserved forever. The would also serve as a natural aggregator/meeting place for astronomers.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 02:10:42 JST Mastodon Migration

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     This observation is inspired by a post from astronomer Daniel Fischer @cosmos4u (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115209967824042242) who writes:

     "...what about longterm stability? Will important and maybe even influential #Mastodon posts be still around in 5, 10, 50 years? On much-despised X - or FB - those from 10+ years ago are still around (if you know the URLs)."

     Yes, old posts on X are still around, but there is no guarantee that they will remains so. This is entirely at the whim of the then current owner.

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