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Here is the reason for lemmy.fmhy.ml

very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za

.ml domains (the one fmhy.ml was on) has been reclaimed by the Mali government

Freenom is also being sued by Meta (and has been for the past few months)

Both of these have resulted in fmhy, along with a lot of other domains, to be unresolvable

Changing domains will cause us to have to refederate and start mostly from scratch (although we might be able to transfer posts and users)

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kid2908@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And it seem to getting worse for lemmy fmhy

very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hg4dquksvbha67h

All services, except Lemmy, is up and running again via the new domain: fmhy.net

Lemmy itself will require a significant database cleanup to get users transferred, posts and communities may not be possible

Cleanup will have to be done either manually or with a custom script

And now to answer some common questions I’ve seen floating around:

Why is lemmy.ml not affected? WE DON’T KNOW. My assumption is that it’s popular (or lucky enough) to not be affected by this change. The only difference between our two domains is that lemmy.ml doesn’t use CF, and AFAIK, multiple other domains (with and without cf) are still unreachable.

Why can’t you just change the domain? That’s not how federation works. Most services (including Mastodon and Lemmy) do not support changing URL properly, as doing so could potentially break the whole network.

Why is it taking so long to get back up? Not all staff members have access to the server, CF, or domain registrar. Not to mention that this is a complicated task that requires a lot of effort, and one that we didn’t even know we had to do until the following morning. (We were under the assumption that the .ml TLD didn’t just explode.)
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kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What is Freenom and why are we supposed to know what that is?

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- floridaman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Freedom in a domains registrar that gives out ‘free’ domains for up to a year. They were the registrar for .ml domains until this happened.
  
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