"subscribed to cross projects", started on mastodon.party. created accounts on several other masto instances. frendica, calckey, lemmy. a few have disappeared. no big loss, low population. some I've only visited to setup profiles, in case I need them. Have little to backup but tools for import/export are usually in settings. hang around stop.voring.me because locals are friendly programmer types. I used to dev a Wordpress network for a college 10 years ago. avoided social media until a few years ago. wasted 3 months on twitter and they permabanned me long before the buyout. federation is cool and works but each instance/account is basically separate. I update my mastodon verification file to try to keep track of accounts. https://m3t0034.github.io/mastodon/