Unfortunately what seems to be the cached version of lemmy.fmhy.ml is now slowly disappearing from Cloudflare. Those 2 comments have now been lost as well along with most of the content.
Wait, did it die completely? I knew they lost the domain, but did they not change to anywhere else?
From what I can gather losing the domain means losing the instance. Obviously that sucks but if I was designing Lemmy I wouldn’t think of “what if the Malian government suddenly decides not?”.
The reason they haven’t yet come back to another instance is they’re trying to work out how to migrate and keep the instance while not breaking anything.
It’s not lemmy as a whole is it? I thought the main url is lemmy.org. It’s only a couple of instances that used .ml.
There’s join-lemmy.org, but that’s just a list of instances.
There’s no “main URL” to a decentralized space. There’s only the URLs of participating websites.
This is more like activitypub problem. You can’t really change domain in activitypub. Even in mastodon, you can only add another alias domain. Losing your original domain is catastrophic. I’m actually interested whether the activitypub devs are finally going to address this. I’m also interested to see what kind of hack FMHY use in order to save their instance.
Not a (permanent) solution, just a very (very, very,…) stupid idea, that I am not even sure would work.
What happened? They don’t own the domains anymore, the DNS records were removed so those domains don’t resolve to anything. But maybe they could be locally resolved by each instance. I added these entries to my /etc/hosts file when the DNS records were deleted:
104.21.81.71 lemmy.fmhy.ml
#172.67.140.145 lemmy.fmhy.ml
#188.114.97.3 www.fmhy.ml
188.114.96.3 www.fmhy.ml
This allowed me access to FMHY (while it was still up).
Even if this worked, why would it be stupid? Well it would have to be manually set by each instance. And those IP addresses may change from time to time, so it would have to be manually updated again, by every instance.
A thanks for the IP addresses to dnshistory.org (fmhy.ml) and whoever wrote this comment: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/1231585 (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
Seems like they’re working on it: https://very.bignutty.xyz/@FMHY
(If you can’t open the website, try disabling your adblocker. very.bignutty.xyz might be blocked by some adblockers)
very.bignutty.xyz is being blocked by AdGuard DNS filter, AdGuard Base filter and EasyList
