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.
Posting here for visibility as I guess most people on Lemmy are not on Firefish/Mastodon
First I join Vlemmy.net and then FMHY.ML… I am afraid whatever instance I join next will collapse 😭
I’m sorry but for the good of all instances I’m afraid you will need to become a lurker 😔
I also joined vlemmy.net and it came down between fmhy.ml and sh.itjust.works. Guess I got lucky!
Frick, my website uses .ml and it’s gone.
Lost mine too, had an .ml domain for testing servers. Was baffled why the DNS won’t resolve, then I see this.
Crap, sorry to hear that
I posted this on another thread about this, but I’ll repost it here:
I have made a tool that can backup / copy your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks to a new account: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
There are others out there as well if you look.
Obviously the loss of .ml communities would still be catastrophic to Lemmy, but at least your new account won’t start from ground-zero, and you can be less effected by downtime by having 2 accounts with the same subscriptions.
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Fantastic tool; thank you. I’ve been keeping 2 accounts—just in case—and this simplifies it significantly.
What about lemmy.ml? Can govt just take their domain?
Makes me wonder what’s going to happen to lemmy.ml if the Mali government is taking back their domains.
Now that we see things like this can happen, maybe we can make it easier to resolve going forward.
Prolly a noob question but why was the .ml TLD chosen in the first place?
It was free
I can see that it’s enticing to get a free domain… But domain costs are trivial. Like $10 a year, why risk it?
Well, I guess they just learned the hard way
I hope FMHY comes back. Didn’t realise how much I liked it until it was gone.
Because this caught everyone by surprise or was there some indication that things would just continue business as usual? The registrar has known the contract ended since it was signed 10 years ago, I would figure this would have been accounted for.
But they only took the domain name, not the server? So it should be no issue to just get another domain, change a bit of config on the system and web server, and be up and running in no time?
Sure, but depending on which timezone they are in, it could be nighttime for them
Hello! I’m new to Lemmy, could someone break this down like I’m 5 and explain what it means for the people who were already on there?
It was good while it lasted and they managed to keep it going longer than my first instance (two days)
Not all instances are created equal however one I tried to sign upto their email verification didn’t work and others just didn’t bother to activate my account for whatever the reason.
Happy to see your on shitjustworks now, it’s a solid one
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?
Man this is all so interesting to see so many unique situations testing the Fediverse to see how it holds up.
IMO the real takeaway is that a big instance disappeared overnight and yet here we all are on the fediverse talking about it.
