Note: Edited to remove several questions as I found the doc that covered changing the domain name.
I set this instance up on my personal/development domain and would like to move it to a new, dedicated one before it picks up any more users.
I've got a few questions about how this would affect existing federation:
According to the backup/restore doc, it says that changing the domain name after federating will break federation.
I guess my questions relate to how badly and what is the best way to mitigate any damage? If I have to scrap this instance and lose everything, at this point, it's not a huge problem.
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Will currently peered instances eventually drop my old instance after a period of unavailability? If not, are there any negative implications for having a dead peer?
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Would I be better off just to create a brand new instance, alert my users and have them re-register, and then decommission this one?
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Would returning an HTTP 301 response at my old instance be beneficial or would that cause problems for existing peers?
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Assuming no other instances are subscribing to my single community yet, would that make any difference?
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Are there any other gotchas I should know about?
Basically, in my haste to get started exploring running a Lemmy server, I let my development instance get published. I can easily move it to a production state, but I would prefer to do so on a dedicated domain versus my personal/development one.
Thanks in advance.