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queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban (archive.fo)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The admin stated they won't be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.

Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083

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

Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.

Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.

You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.

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

Yes, that was a big issue for fmhy.ml too