This is why we host our instance on a .org. Honestly another huge blow for Lemmy. It doesn't really inspire confidence in the platform. Hopefully after enough time passes smaller instances like us and the bigger ones left will have help up a good track record to inspire confidence again.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Only one went down - most everyone else are still up.
This is the opposite of a blow. It directly shows the resilience of the fediverse.
Where I live i cant access any .ml instances so for me even the lemmy.ml is down
This just shows how putting all eggs into one basket is a bad idea.
Only the fewest of few instances should have used .ml - they should have spread out. This is the beauty of the fediverse when done as intended.
The only drawback I see, is that people want to make instances bigger, scaling tall, when they should have been scaling wide + wanting to use the same odd TLD. We reap what we sow.
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If this was a planned takeover by the government, why was there no notification sent in time? Why is lemmy.ml not shut down in parallel?
There was a report in the beginning of June that things started looking weird. The registration of new .ml domains shut down in the beginning of the year.
In short, the Mali government just gave some random 3rd party a ten-year contract to hand out the domains for free, which the third party did without too much care or attention. It would have been up to the third party to notify domain owners, but as they're not paying and probably don't even have contracts themselves, there was little incentive to do so.
As far as I can understand, it relates to the US military scandal only indirectly: As the .ml domains are now returning to the government of Mali, it becomes a lot more problematic that the US keep directing their emails there, and the person in charge of managing the domain went public about the security threat.
Good timing for Reddit …. Wait….
I initially started on Lemmy.ml but decided to look for smaller instances. Not only just to be safe for stuff like this, but also to find a tighter community. I found an instance dedicated to the area I grew up around and have been really happy with that move.
What happens when it goes down, will all of the posts be gone?