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Is it possible to move to another domain? (atosoul.zapto.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious if I can migrate my instance (a single user) to a different domain? Right now I'm on a free DNS from no-ip but I might get a prettier paid domain name sometime.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the thing has already been federated. Changing the ID in the db will appear to the rest of the fediverse as new things, not as those same things.

[–] LordShrek 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

ah ok. well then there would need to be a deeper change and all instances would need to update. have a field for the ID of the instance itself, and a field for the domain. or something like that. would that work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think it would need to be a mechanism similar to how user moves are handled where the old thing sticks around forever but has a field that says "the new one is over here" and then the new one has a field that says "yes, I am the same as that old one". At least I think that's how e.g. mastodon handles moves of users (just the person/actor, not any of their content. AFAIK nothing in the fediverse can do something like this with anything other than a person/actor at the moment)

[–] LordShrek 1 points 11 months ago

OR, after changing the ID, have the instance publish a "domain_change_notification" that all federated instances would be listening for and then they would update their data.