When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Unfortunately in the fediverse changing your domain isn't really possible. You basically have to start over.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's technically possible, just really, really hard. One example of a successful migration was the transition from calckey.social to firefish.social. It was a massive, extremely difficult undertaking, though.

A big problem involves how user identities are tied to instances. If there were a way to decouple that, I think a lot of the pain goes away.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 3 points 9 months ago

In a similar fashion, it would be great to find a way to migrate your post history, not just your followers, between one service and another. So far it's possible to request a backup, but only a few services allow importing said backup, let alone import a backup from a different provider (so far only Firefish, Pixelfed and its derivatives allow for the latter).

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