Defederate/delete communities from FMHY lemmy instances?
Since lemmy.fmhy.ml and lemmy.fmhy.net is no longer online. I would like to suggest lemmy.world and other instances to delete any communities and posts from these two instances that are cached.
The reason is that new lemmy users may join these communities as they find them in using the search on lemmy not knowing that they do not exist anymore since their domain name or hosting is forever gone.
Isn’t there a way to defederate but leave history intact? The fact that no new posts are coming from that source doesn’t mean there aren’t useful posts from when they were active/federated (that some users may have saved, etc.). As a general rule, the loss of information seems to me like a bad thing. Defederating should prevent new posts from reaching other servers, but not retroactively change what was already there.
As for new users subscribing: is should be something baked in the subscription mechanism, not letting you subscribe to something from a (currently) defederated server.
Not sure what happened this time but last time it was due to loosing their domain. FMHY was the first instance I joined and is now the reason I self host.
fmhy.ml domain was seized due to the mali government taking back control of their TLD. Then they reappeared under lemmy.fmhy.net and then disappeared again but I do not know why.
Just annoying seeing this large dead instance still federated with lemmy.world and many other large instances.
Someone will correct me, but I believe when the Mali gov’t took control of .ml they started revoking a bunch of domains. IIRC I saw a post stating that the datacenter hosting the .net was having issues, not sure if it was HW or ransomware related
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