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The admin stated they won't be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.

Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 47 points 10 months ago (10 children)

They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?

[–] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 19 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.

Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.

You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Damn, that's sad. Thank you for the info.

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