For example I would selfhost Mastodon with me@fedi.com but then decide to change the server software to GoToSocial but keep the same me@fedi.com. Would everyone who was following me@fedi.com keep me in their follower list or would whole fediverse crash?
quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.
Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.
Very interesting.
Didn’t think such a “dirty” method of moving from Lemmy to Piefed would work
while I don’t know the answer to the question, I am very certain that
or would whole fediverse crash
is not it; if that could make the whole fediverse crash, someone could do it maliciously. At most it will cause problems delivering your messages or delivering messages to you.
I’m not a technical person, so i don’t really know, but from a blog i read about switching from lemmy to piefed, i guess there should be some problems :
I also changed the URL from jemmy.jeena.net to piefed.jeena.net because I don’t want the other instances to be confused when suddenly a different software with different contents is available under the same domain. But I’m thinking to start up Lemmy and unsubscribe from all communities and to delete the one community I have on my Lemmy instance which has only very few subscribers.
That at least would be a somewhat clean way to dispose of this lemmy instance. Oh and I should return a 410 Gone to indicate that it’s permanently gone.
I changed kbin.earth from kbin to Mbin, and it’s been working great. It definitely helps that Mbin is a fork of kbin.
