fmhy.ml is gone, due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back
As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml is also gone, we are currently exploring ways to refederate (or somehow restart federation entirely) without breaking anything substantial
We have backups, so don't worry about data loss (you can view them on other instances anyway)

Currently, we have fmhy.net and are exploring options to somehow migrate, thank you for your patience.

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[–] peereboominc@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does this have anything to do with the whole email thing from the American military? According to the financial times, there are about 117.000 emails send to .ML addresses instead of .MIL..

Translated page: https://tweakers-net.translate.goog/nieuws/211828/nederlander-die-ml-voor-mali-beheert-kreeg-duizenden-e-mails-amerikaanse-leger.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 7 points 1 year ago

Somewhat related. Basically, the management of the .ml TLD are being handed back to Mali government, and they seem to revoking.ml domains left and right.

I suspect they're revoking registration for .ml domains that was registered for free. the company that originally managed .ml domains had a free domain offers where you could register any .ml domain for free, the caveat is you don't have the ownership right to that free domain. Maybe Mali government doesn't honor such free domain registration and wish to revoke them all.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

All of my posts on other instances are gone now :/

[–] th4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Prolly a noob question but why was the .ml TLD chosen in the first place?

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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that, was concerned about keeping my subscription to that community. Keep us posted and let us know where you end up so I can change over my community subscription.

Anyway I think the lesson learned here is don't use free TLDs. Lemmy is not at all designed to deal with domain name changes.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But they only took the domain name, not the server? So it should be no issue to just get another domain, change a bit of config on the system and web server, and be up and running in no time?

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 6 points 1 year ago

Not that easily, no. With ActivityPub your user ID is tied to the instance URL. If you subscribe to a community for example, when that community tries to "honor" your subscription by sending you updates of what is happening, it'll go to that .ml domain and be lost.

There's no official supported way to change your instance domain other than to start fresh. They might be able to do something hacky such as change all of the domains in the database and while locally that might appear to work, I don't know if it would work across the federation.

I do know on the instance I run, I accidentally broke the webserver config for one of the ActivityPub endpoints and the result was that when I sent out comments, it never actually got federated / published yet I can still see them from my instance. New subscriptions also didn't work. It was as if I effectively shadow-banned the instance by accident.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because this caught everyone by surprise? The registrar has known the contract ended since it was signed 10 years ago, I would figure this would have been accounted for.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

IDK, but registrars are generally shitty and exploitative. I'd be surprised if they volunteered that info

[–] RootBeerGuy@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So why is lemmy.ml still working?

At least I see posts from their instance, like this one https://midwest.social/post/1290001

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They may not have taken the lemmy.ml domain back yet, but because the different instances are federated, you'll still be able to see contents from an instance that's gone.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.fmhy.ml is pirate friendly, lemmy.ml is not. Maybe the Mali government suddenly decided they don't like piracy because... reasons? Maybe the Somalian pirates pissed them off???

[–] Koffiato@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt they care about such things.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

I migrated, but I would happily rejoin under a different tld.

[–] falseteefs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was good while it lasted and they managed to keep it going longer than my first instance (two days)

Not all instances are created equal however one I tried to sign upto their email verification didn't work and others just didn't bother to activate my account for whatever the reason.

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[–] FlapKap@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there some news coverage on the mali governments actions? I couldn't find anything on my quick google search

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[–] saffron@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hello! I'm new to Lemmy, could someone break this down like I'm 5 and explain what it means for the people who were already on there?

[–] null@zerobytes.monster 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It means anybody who will want to go to site lemmy.fmhy.ml will not load site and would think its down, maybe some will find out on google about it, some are already on multiple instances...

Also all links to lemmy.fmhy.ml are dead/gone now.

Btw the domain *.ml was free as i read, at least they could get some 1-5 USD domain name extension.

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