No idea if this is feasible or not, but could the fediverse have an internal DNS-esque system where domain details could be updated to reflect communities moving?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Kinda, So everything in the fediverse uses its https url as an id. To fetch the content after its been posted, a server needs the content to be live.
As a result, everything breaks when domains go down.

FEP-ef61 fixes this, by making objects portable, and making it possible for servers to request them from other servers.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

This isn't implemented by anything major yet unfortunately.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

That's awesome! Thanks for the info. Hopefully we can see something like this implemented in the near future.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Edit them to what, exactly?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Links to non-shutting down instances.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If I understand correctly, as long as a post was federated to a given instance before lemm.ee shut down, the federated copy of the post should be discoverable by searching that instance for the original lemm.ee URL.

This search can be done manually, or automatically using tools like Lemmyverse.link or Lemmy Universal Link Switcher. Many mobile apps also have built-in "open in my instance" functionality.

Wouldn't editing the posts to change lemm.ee URLs to URLs of arbitrary instances run the risk of breaking these tools?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I meant when recommending instances to people.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Oh... that makes way more sense. Thanks for clarifying!

Yeah, that would probably be a good idea, as long as it doesn't alter the context of a thread, e.g. rendering the replies to a post or comment off-topic nonsensical.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I always recommended LW because IMO explicit discussions about decentralisation (as opposed to a general statement that an American oligarch can't buy Lemmy) are counterproductive when on-boarding people.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand, should LW make a similar announcement to the Lemm.ee one today, the whole platform would be in big trouble.

[–] ping@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

It will compound the issue if lemm.ee users migrate to lemmy.world, so we should migrate to anything but.