Losing a social account and a community built over years – how do you protect your account?

Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).

Fortunately, I got my account back – but it was a strong reminder that we don’t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.

The only safeguards that came to mind were:

• Building relationships with internal employees of the platforms

• Growing an email list

• Creating a backup account and growing it in parallel

• Exploring decentralised social networks

How would you handle and protect against situations like this?