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.
Man this is all so interesting to see so many unique situations testing the Fediverse to see how it holds up.
let’s hope they’re interesting because it’s novel and the problems were there with other solutions just solved ages ago rather than the alternative: “so many unique situations” because there are a litany of “oops didn’t think of that” moments that will continue to crop up
Lemmy has had such a crazy month and a half. Insane growth, XSS injections, DDOS attacks, admin takeover, domain name seizures. What a wild ride
My boy Lemmy is growing up!
Welcome to the real world
and still better than using official Reddit app (and still better than Reddit overall) lol
What’s this about an admin takeover?
I think they are referring to this
oh, the XSS injection? I thought it would be some admins fighting over who owned the instance or something like that lol
That’s how every service starts. Let’s keep going
Facts. And such drama does make Lemmy more appealing in a way
Posting here for visibility as I guess most people on Lemmy are not on Firefish/Mastodon
glad to see them not go down the vlemmy path
Yes, that’s reassuring. Also, nice to see their main website, I never actually noticed it existed
Damn, lemmy.zip, eh? If that instance is public, I don’t see that being a good thing.
Tons of businesses, people, etc, are all banning .zip and .mov TLDs for security purposes. I’ve personally banned all those domains from my network as well.
Bold move.
i don’t doubt there have been a lot of cases of those tlds used for scams but i haven’t been negatively effected by this instances domain name.
feel free to read the discussion about it here though
I can’t open that link because I block .zip domains lol
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 😔
Are you me? Same instances, same order…
…same fear.
I also joined vlemmy.net and it came down between fmhy.ml and sh.itjust.works. Guess I got lucky!
I’ve been seeing posts from users on lemmy.ml though? How’s that possible
They are probably paying for the domain
have fmhy not paying for theirs?
No idea… Sorry
Frick, my website uses .ml and it’s gone.
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.
Super useful, thanks! 👍
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.
All of my posts on other instances are gone now :/
Now that we see things like this can happen, maybe we can make it easier to resolve going forward.
I hope FMHY comes back. Didn’t realise how much I liked it until it was gone.
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
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
Does this have anything to do with the whole email thing from the American military? According to the financial times, there are about 117.000 emails send to .ML addresses instead of .MIL…