502

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.

(page 3) 44 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If this was a planned takeover by the government, why was there no notification sent in time? Why is lemmy.ml not shut down in parallel?

[-] sab@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There was a report in the beginning of June that things started looking weird. The registration of new .ml domains shut down in the beginning of the year.

In short, the Mali government just gave some random 3rd party a ten-year contract to hand out the domains for free, which the third party did without too much care or attention. It would have been up to the third party to notify domain owners, but as they're not paying and probably don't even have contracts themselves, there was little incentive to do so.

As far as I can understand, it relates to the US military scandal only indirectly: As the .ml domains are now returning to the government of Mali, it becomes a lot more problematic that the US keep directing their emails there, and the person in charge of managing the domain went public about the security threat.

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

Good timing for Reddit …. Wait….

[-] eddietrax@dmv.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I initially started on Lemmy.ml but decided to look for smaller instances. Not only just to be safe for stuff like this, but also to find a tighter community. I found an instance dedicated to the area I grew up around and have been really happy with that move.

[-] wtry@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What happens when it goes down, will all of the posts be gone?

[-] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I’m happy with the app because I would get suspicious every time the link changes again… pffff

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
502 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

28238 readers
397 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS