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.

  • Aurix@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If this was a planned takeover by the government, why was there no notification sent in time? Why is lemmy.ml not shut down in parallel?

    • sab@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      There was a report in the beginning of June that things started looking weird. The registration of new .ml domains shut down in the beginning of the year.

      In short, the Mali government just gave some random 3rd party a ten-year contract to hand out the domains for free, which the third party did without too much care or attention. It would have been up to the third party to notify domain owners, but as they’re not paying and probably don’t even have contracts themselves, there was little incentive to do so.

      As far as I can understand, it relates to the US military scandal only indirectly: As the .ml domains are now returning to the government of Mali, it becomes a lot more problematic that the US keep directing their emails there, and the person in charge of managing the domain went public about the security threat.