Very excited about Bitcoinhackers Mastodon. I joined a few days ago, followed some accounts, and made two toots. Last night I logged into a completely deleted account.

PSA – @nvk will delete your account from bitcoinhackers without warning. https://twitter.com/dilutionproof/status/1349270539391688705

The irony is real. As Bitcoiners are fleeing Twitter to Mastodon in order to evade censorship, I was deleted after making these two toots about censorship and free speech.

This is what it looks like when your account is deleted by the server admin on Mastodon.

But due to Mastodon's architecture, it shouldn't be a big deal (right?). I can just download my data and take it to a new server.

Wrong. Unfortunately @nvk deleted all my data, so now I've had to set up a new handle on a new server and start to re-follow accounts.

But each server is governed by a terms of service, right? Here's a link to the bitcoinhackers terms. https://bitcoinhackers.org/terms .

So I'm supposed to be allowed to download my data at anytime. Oops.

The irony is just so real.

This is a great lesson about this new wave of federated social media. Mastodon is awesome, and I am excited to host my own server in the near future to not have to worry about being de-platformed.

For now you can find me at [email protected].