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lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] (very.bignutty.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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An update:

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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[-] th4@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

It was free

[-] panja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I can see that it's enticing to get a free domain... But domain costs are trivial. Like $10 a year, why risk it?

[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Well, I guess they just learned the hard way

[-] effingjoe@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

The scuttlebutt is that it's a inside joke by the far-left dev of lemmy to stand for marxist-leninist, but it's just as likely, if not more, that it was chosen because it's free.

Keep in mind that most (all?) two-letter TLDs are associated with a country. This includes stuff like .io, .tv, and .me