Is it possible or does it present difficulties with federation?
I’m asking because today Vlemmy seems dead and people are speculating it has something to do with losing the domain name. So I want to know if there is a possibility the same server could come up again under a different domain but keeping the same accounts and content stored or if they will need to set up a new server and thus it’s just better to move on to another instance.
I’m not so sure.
The reason the domain is part of our usernames, is so that there can’t be two users with exactly the same name.
If a server could change its domain name after initial setup, that would break.
I never thought of that. I’m not so sure how the net would take it. I don’t know the code closely enough to answer that question. I’ll edit my answer to reflect that.
Links break. Storage, functionality, local links don’t break.
Yes they do. At least with matrix, shit goes SUPER WRONG with the local database if you try to change your domain.
To the point that the only way to really change it is to purge the whole thing and start over.
Lemmy is not matrix though.
I guess we’re both making broad assumptions.
? But when interacting with local content your name ha sno server associated with it, so the server info is only present for federated content.
Bringing the old server back up configured with a new name could… Maybe send out duplicate content with the new name? Idk enough about activitypub yet.