Not sure if this topic fits in this community but recently my account on a lemmy instance with a .ml extension (lemmy.fmhy.ml) was rendered inaccessible.

While the instance works to a degree (I can set a dns overide to gain acess) due to the broken domain it effectivly renders my account (and the instance lost due to federation).

While bookworm is fine I worry about other instances like lemmy.ml which has the same domain prefix and hosts many communities.

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  • RainbowUnicorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Another reason why .com, .org or .(European country) is better. Especially .org or .online or .world are perfect for lemmy instances. Why use a domain from an African country?

    • DeemoOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      not sure about lemmy.ml but fmhy was sorta piracy related (I only chose since it was at the top of join lemmy at the time and it had a open federation policy) and possibly instance owners didn’t want a regestrar which could seize the domain easily (although that seems to have backfired).

      • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        FMHY was a great freedom instance. The only defederated instances were Lemmygrad and exploding-heads. And those were both so awful that I actually wanted to see them defederated. The only one I would have added to the defed list is Burggit because it’s literally just for loli content and it’s just fucking gross.