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.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • mvee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      ? 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.