It’s my understanding that this isn’t possible. Migrating domains in Lemmy is not supported though it is possible with some very hacky solutions like you’re describing. But the old domain needs to be retained indefinitely as a pointer to the domain or it will break federation with other instances. If they lost control of the domain then federation will break. They can potentially migrate users and posts, but it is effectively like resetting and starting over as a new instance.
leraje@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right, but if Mali do reclaim all the .ml domains out there then there’s little option? Yes, federation will break for .ml and yes it’ll be like starting over on a fresh instance but only in terms of federation - all the users, communities, posts and comments will still exist, just under a new domain. Once the new domain starts federating people will catch on, especially if the news is posted on the larger instances.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying its not a problem, I’m just not sure its a total disaster either.
Toribor@corndog.uk 11 months ago
Yes. It doesn’t outright kill an instance, but it’s definitely a major inconvenience and a learning opportunity.