@Ruth_Mottram @CopernicusEU @esa @koen_hufkens wrote this with two very competent people back in early 2017: https://blog.sciencebyfacts.org/index.php/2017/02/09/publicly-backing-up-scientific-datasets-that-can-be-adversely-altered/

Read “Mastodon” instead of “IRC” - we were expecting Twitter to fall under Trump’s ally much faster back then (~2018), and Mastodon did not exist yet.

(Fun fact - that’s why I joined Mastodon already in 2017)