• Korne127@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          What do you mean with taken back? Don’t they need to… give it away for someone to get a ML domain?
          And what about vlemmy?

          • Monologue@lemmy.zip
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            @jonne@infosec.pub is right about the .ml part, as for vlemmy, one day it just stopped existing. nobody knows why. some people are theorising that the admin did not want to moderate and shut the instance down.

      • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        .ml top-level domain got taken back by the Mali Government “.ml” stands for Mali

        Edit: lemmy.ml is still up either because the Mali Government haven’t gotten to them yet (lemmy.ml is after fmhy.ml in alphabetical order) or maybe they paid for the domain instead of getting a free domain like lemmy.fmhy.ml did.

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    Isn’t the fediverse fragile long-term wise from a structural point of view? I have this feeling that a ton of small lemmy instances will die over the years taking content away (I don’t expect this will happen with lemmy.world). Is this something that could happen? Will it be a problem?

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      2 years ago

      I thought the content will still be available on the other instances that were federated before the instance went down.

      • egeres@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        It’s possible I’m wrong!! I’m still learning about the mechanics of the fediverse

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        Text is federated between instances while images are hosted on the home instance assuming you didn’t just embed an image from somewhere else like Imgur. I dont believe lemmy hosts any videos, but that might just be an instance admin thing.

      • Franklin@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Could we do something like a central ledger for users that an instance could opt in to hosting but still isn’t controlled centrally?

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          Representing the quorum in some kind of logical chain of consensus-derived blocks, you say?

  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Reminder to always backup your subscriptions/blocks to an alt acct using LASIM or something similar.