Not sure if this topic fits in this community but recently my account on a lemmy instance with a .ml extension (lemmy.fmhy.ml) was rendered inaccessible.
While the instance works to a degree (I can set a dns overide to gain acess) due to the broken domain it effectivly renders my account (and the instance lost due to federation).
While bookworm is fine I worry about other instances like lemmy.ml which has the same domain prefix and hosts many communities.
12 Comments
communistcapy@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 3y
Well... A good reminder not to host a production app on a free domain name.
RainbowUnicorn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Another reason why .com, .org or .(European country) is better. Especially .org or .online or .world are perfect for lemmy instances. Why use a domain from an African country?
Deemo@bookwormstory.social · 4 pts · 3y
not sure about lemmy.ml but fmhy was sorta piracy related (I only chose since it was at the top of join lemmy at the time and it had a open federation policy) and possibly instance owners didn't want a regestrar which could seize the domain easily (although that seems to have backfired).
LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3y
FMHY was a great freedom instance. The only defederated instances were Lemmygrad and exploding-heads. And those were both so awful that I actually wanted to see them defederated. The only one I would have added to the defed list is Burggit because it's literally just for loli content and it's just fucking gross.
XiELEd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Do you know of other instances the same as FMHY in that regard?
Deemo@bookwormstory.social · 2 pts · 3y
Regarding lemmy.fmhy.ml they are moving the site to fmhy.net
Deemo@bookwormstory.social · 1 pts · 3y
Maybe lemmy.world?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Because ml stands for Marxist Leninist
LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3y
Damn that really sucks, FMHY was my main instance.
Deemo@bookwormstory.social · 3 pts · 3y
If you want to backup your subscriptions you can use a dns rewrite to gain pseudo acess back lemmy.fmhy.ml → 104.21.81.71
Example:
not sure if this is browser cache....