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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.

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[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Shall I make an account in another instance?

[-] sab@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they are actively working on functionality to migrate user accounts and other data between instances, so that they can use that functionality to migrate everything on an instance to another instance.

Since migrating data affects all the replicated data on other instances as well, I guess when they migrate lemmy.ml somewhere else, all of Lemmy will be down for a day or two, being just overloaded with all the migration stuff.

[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info.

[-] hellequin67@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I've migrated from fmhy to feddit.uk, luckily my subscriptions were on a cached web page soon was able to manually re-subscribe.

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Nope. Domains don't store data. They can change domain and keep all the data.

[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately, no.

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

So basically, if you switch your instance domain, you'll mess up all your federation network, unless Lemmy devs implement a solution soon.

[-] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Calckey.social will be transferring all data to new firefish.social, first in the Fediverse.

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