A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

Consider whether you are collecting and/or retaining more information than necessary, such as logging IP addresses, datestamps, or reading activity. If you don’t have it, they won’t come for it. Thus, it a best practice to publish a law enforcement guide explaining how you respond to data demands from the government, including what information you cannot provide.