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

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Blaze 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was free

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 12 points 1 year ago

Well, I guess they just learned the hard way

[–] [email protected] 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