An update:

  • fmhy.ml is gone, due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back
  • As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml is also gone, we are currently exploring ways to refederate (or somehow restart federation entirely) without breaking anything substantial
  • We have backups, so don’t worry about data loss (you can view them on other instances anyway)

Currently, we have fmhy.net and are exploring options to somehow migrate, thank you for your patience.

    • sab@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Good thing join-lemmy is safely tucked away in a .org domain.

      This is extremely bad timing for Lemmy (if it ends up happening), but also a good example of how federation makes the entire social media landscape more robust. Had this happened to a centralized service it would be devastating.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        If it was always going to happen, now isn’t really a bad time. Sure, a month ago would have been better, but people still haven’t been here that long. If I wind up needing to migrate, and lose my current account, oh well. No big loss. I imagine others feel similar.

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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        1 year ago

        Currently, activitypub identity is tied to domain name. Mastodon support migration as long as the old domain is still up during the migration process, but AFAIK Lemmy doesn’t even have a process to migrate an instance to a new domain yet.

        Someone should tell Lemmy devs and send them a crate of coffee because it’ll be a race to implement domain migration before all .ml domains got shut down.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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        1 year ago

        The instance is known by its domain name in the federation network. If that domain name changes, it’s like starting a new instance from scratch.

        Sounds like a complicated project to migrate communities and posts and users to a new instance without breaking something.