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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shall I make an account in another instance?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Never hurts. Could be a good opportunity to look around the threadiverse and see if you find anything interesting.

However, as it only affects the domain, I expect the Lemmy developers will manage to migrate user data to the new domain should lemmy.ml go down. So your account won't just disappear, but it might go down for a while. It might also affect communities hosted on .ml domains, as followers from other instances will not have the correct path any more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they are actively working on functionality to migrate user accounts and other data between instances, so that they can use that functionality to migrate everything on an instance to another instance.

Since migrating data affects all the replicated data on other instances as well, I guess when they migrate lemmy.ml somewhere else, all of Lemmy will be down for a day or two, being just overloaded with all the migration stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've migrated from fmhy to feddit.uk, luckily my subscriptions were on a cached web page soon was able to manually re-subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. Domains don't store data. They can change domain and keep all the data.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, no.

Currently, activitypub identity is tied to domain name. While mastodon support migration as long as the old domain is still up during the migration process, AFAIK Lemmy doesn't even have a process to migrate an instance to a new domain yet.

So basically, if you switch your instance domain, you'll mess up all your federation network, unless Lemmy devs implement a solution soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Calckey.social will be transferring all data to new firefish.social, first in the Fediverse.