NVK even yanked it earlier than when he said he would. He said March 1st, not Feb 27th. I had procrastinated on making one last backup of who I was following and members of a list so that I could update my list of "who to follow" so that I could then provide a current list (after stripping out any @bitcoinhackers.org entries):
You're at the mercy of the instance maintainer and they can make their arbitrary rules and not keep their promises.
This protocol sucks.
Nostr is showing way because you own your identity there, courtesy of public key cryptography.
You're not bound to one single Mastodon instance that can close down at any second, resulting in you losing all your data, identity and followers.
nsecwith this bridge. Then yeah that's pretty nice.