Blaze (he/him)Jul 21, 2023

lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1484592

lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] - sh.itjust.works

An update: - fmhy.ml [http://fmhy.ml] is gone, due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back - As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml [http://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 [http://fmhy.net] and are exploring options to somehow migrate, thank you for your patience.

Show threadSquare SingerJul 21, 2023
WIll this also affect all other .ml domains? Or is this some anti-piracy thing? (I don’t know fmhy, but from the name I guess it’s about piracy.)
Show threadsabJul 21, 2023
It seems to be Mali just wanting their domains back, in which case it's uncertain times for all .ml domains.
Show thread001100 010010Jul 21, 2023
rip lemmy.ml
Show threadDurotarJul 21, 2023
It’s just the domain, though. That’s not a big deal to change.
Show threadlazynooblet
Federation connections are by domain name, so … it is a big deal
Jul 21, 2023 at 10:06amWeb
Show threadDurotarJul 21, 2023
From that point of view, yes. That’d mess things up, you’re right. But from my understanding, they won’t lose any data, accounts will remain, as well as subscriptions that lemmy.ml users have. Or am I wrong?
Show threadrussjr08Jul 21, 2023

The problem is, if they don’t have access to their original .ml domain, their accounts are still tied to it. That means if they try to interact, such as subscribing to a community, when the data for that action tries to be sent back (such as updates) it’ll go to the .ml domain, which they wouldn’t receive.

Lemmy doesn’t have a built in way to just change the domain name, or really any of the ActivityPub services AFAIK. You’d have to either really do some hacky stuff to get around it (which could result in unknown issues down the line) or reset everything.

Show threadDurotarJul 21, 2023
Oh, it’s more complex than I expected. Thanks for explaining. I was wrong.
Show threadToriborJul 21, 2023

Most of the hacky ways around it involve retaining ownership of the old domain and leaving it up indefinitely as a pointer to the new location. If your domain is taken from you though there is not much you can do.

Seriously dumb to have used this TLD considering there are a ton of choices these days.

Show threadRxBradJul 21, 2023

Right. This will basically make nearly every /c live in .world as all of the .ml /c’s go defunct. That, or Beehaw, which is walled off from everyone else.

(Side note… my work’s firewalls block everything *.ml – and that’s the only thing that saved me from creating my account there)

Show threadTekakutliJul 21, 2023
laying the fediverse instances-instance communication on top of a mesh-net like yggdrasil using their addresses as domain names, may be a quick fix without having to change the paradigm
GitHub - yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go: An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network

An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network - yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

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