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You can't just change a federated domain like you can change from facebook.com to meta.com, it's nearly impossible
why?
I'm not a fediverse developer but as I understand it the activitypub spec identities people and communities by their domain, and does not define a way to mutate.
Translation: you would loose all your peers and your comments.
If lemmy.ml copied the databases to a new domain, then when websites start to peer again there would be duplicate comments, one from the old domain and one from the new domain.
Translation: it would require the cooperation of every instance to be clean
I'm not a fediverse developer again, this could be wrong