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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[–] Nfntordr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I hope FMHY comes back. Didn't realise how much I liked it until it was gone.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Now that we see things like this can happen, maybe we can make it easier to resolve going forward.

[–] th4@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] peereboominc@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does this have anything to do with the whole email thing from the American military? According to the financial times, there are about 117.000 emails send to .ML addresses instead of .MIL..

Translated page: https://tweakers-net.translate.goog/nieuws/211828/nederlander-die-ml-voor-mali-beheert-kreeg-duizenden-e-mails-amerikaanse-leger.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 8 points 1 year ago

Somewhat related. Basically, the management of the .ml TLD are being handed back to Mali government, and they seem to revoking.ml domains left and right.

I suspect they're revoking registration for .ml domains that was registered for free. the company that originally managed .ml domains had a free domain offers where you could register any .ml domain for free, the caveat is you don't have the ownership right to that free domain. Maybe Mali government doesn't honor such free domain registration and wish to revoke them all.

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[–] RootBeerGuy@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So why is lemmy.ml still working?

At least I see posts from their instance, like this one https://midwest.social/post/1290001

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

They may not have taken the lemmy.ml domain back yet, but because the different instances are federated, you'll still be able to see contents from an instance that's gone.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.fmhy.ml is pirate friendly, lemmy.ml is not. Maybe the Mali government suddenly decided they don't like piracy because... reasons? Maybe the Somalian pirates pissed them off???

[–] Koffiato@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt they care about such things.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But they only took the domain name, not the server? So it should be no issue to just get another domain, change a bit of config on the system and web server, and be up and running in no time?

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because this caught everyone by surprise or was there some indication that things would just continue business as usual? The registrar has known the contract ended since it was signed 10 years ago, I would figure this would have been accounted for.

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago

I migrated, but I would happily rejoin under a different tld.

[–] saffron@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hello! I'm new to Lemmy, could someone break this down like I'm 5 and explain what it means for the people who were already on there?

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Only instances with a ".ml" at the end of the name may or may not be affected. Lemmy is a collection of instances so the loss of a few will not cripple the whole thing. Content over the whole is not greatly affected.

If your home log-in instance is one that's affected, you'll have to find a new one. You'll know right away because the instance will be unreachable. Not a big deal, last time I looked there was over 1200 instances to chose from.

Another consideration is any communities living on an affected instance may have issues. All communities are common to Lemmy, but each originates from a particular instance. We've not yet seen a major instance go down so I don't know how Lemmy deals with communities getting orphaned like that.

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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that, was concerned about keeping my subscription to that community. Keep us posted and let us know where you end up so I can change over my community subscription.

Anyway I think the lesson learned here is don't use free TLDs. Lemmy is not at all designed to deal with domain name changes.

[–] FlapKap@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there some news coverage on the mali governments actions? I couldn't find anything on my quick google search

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[–] falseteefs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was good while it lasted and they managed to keep it going longer than my first instance (two days)

Not all instances are created equal however one I tried to sign upto their email verification didn't work and others just didn't bother to activate my account for whatever the reason.

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