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.

  • Blaze@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    Posting here for visibility as I guess most people on Lemmy are not on Firefish/Mastodon

  • CMahaff@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • th4@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Prolly a noob question but why was the .ml TLD chosen in the first place?

    • effingjoe@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      The scuttlebutt is that it’s a inside joke by the far-left dev of lemmy to stand for marxist-leninist, but it’s just as likely, if not more, that it was chosen because it’s free.

      Keep in mind that most (all?) two-letter TLDs are associated with a country. This includes stuff like .io, .tv, and .me

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Now that we see things like this can happen, maybe we can make it easier to resolve going forward.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • falseteefs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Aurix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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
      2·
      2 years 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.

  • saffron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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?