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Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).
https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenoDMPN0SdVXSq9ZY
I don’t know lemmy architecture well enough to say this with 100% certainty, but the reasoning is probably something along the lines of that every user is identified by email -like name such as hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you’d need to rename each user to retain their posts and comments…
Then you need to somehow make other instances trust that you’re who you claim to be, and they should overwrite the data as you say, to prevent conflicts or double comments from 2 different names.
Then you get to communities, fed/defed lists, what else
This would require some great engineering to solve rather stupid instance admin mistake…
You should threat TLD owner as a root of trust, and queer trusting Taliban sounds shit
I don’t know lemmy architecture well enough to say this with 100% certainty, but the reasoning is probably something along the lines of that every user is identified by email -like name such as hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you’d need to rename each user to retain their posts and comments…
Then you need to somehow make other instances trust that you’re who you claim to be, and they should overwrite the data as you say, to prevent conflicts or double comments from 2 different names.
Then you get to communities, fed/defed lists, what else
This would require some great engineering to solve rather stupid instance admin mistake…
You should threat TLD owner as a root of trust, and queer trusting Taliban sounds shit