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

    It seems to be Mali just wanting their domains back, in which case it’s uncertain times for all .ml domains.

      • sab@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Never hurts. Could be a good opportunity to look around the threadiverse and see if you find anything interesting.

        However, as it only affects the domain, I expect the Lemmy developers will manage to migrate user data to the new domain should lemmy.ml go down. So your account won’t just disappear, but it might go down for a while. It might also affect communities hosted on .ml domains, as followers from other instances will not have the correct path any more.

        • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
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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.

      • 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.