After many years and experiments, another conclusion I'd like to share:

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@ljrk Sure. Which is why I specifically said "a recognisable but not "funny" name". I use my surname because it works for me but I also own 20+ more domain names for different purposes.

[ingo_wichmann@digitalcourage.social]

@jwildeboer even with your own domain name: how would you move your mastodon instance to another provider without loosing all your data?

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@ingo_wichmann Download the backups that masto.host provides and import them to a new instance. (Yes, I actually do that regularly with a mastodon container on my server just in case