When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 21 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Unfortunately in the fediverse changing your domain isn't really possible. You basically have to start over.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's technically possible, just really, really hard. One example of a successful migration was the transition from calckey.social to firefish.social. It was a massive, extremely difficult undertaking, though.

A big problem involves how user identities are tied to instances. If there were a way to decouple that, I think a lot of the pain goes away.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

People change domains all the time right? Isn't it just a matter of reconfiguring your servers to recognise the new domain provider and address?

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

From what I understand due to the way that Lemmy handles federation, it doesn't (currently?) have a way to handle an instance changing its domain name and still being able to communicate or even an individual user changing their instance and retaining their comments/votes/etc... (this might be more ActivityPub limited since the way Mastodon does it still seems pretty hacky and just a work around for underlying issues).

From a website perspective, yeah, just change some settings and you're good to go and accessible on the web, but that doesn't mean that anything regarding Lemmy is going to actually work.

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