• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    779·
    1 day ago

    The rest of the Fediverse should put together a GoFundMe to buy the domain, and stick up a page with links to donate drones to Ukrainian soldiers, and care packages to families of Uyghur muslims detained in concentration camps in China.

    • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
      23·
      6 hours ago

      care packages to families of Uyghur muslims detained in concentration camps in China.

      So right to the pockets of Adrian Zenz?

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      75·
      22 hours ago

      Couldn’t somebody buy it and change it to force all the assholes out and then change things to make it a proper instance?

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
        10·
        21 hours ago

        Idk how federation works, but I imagine the domain name isn’t the only thing that ties the instanses together together?

        I could be wrong

        • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          18 hours ago

          nah they could, theyd just change it to their ip address, like the domain vendor deleted their ip address from the records when they didn’t pay

          • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            21·
            9 hours ago

            That’s not how the Fediverse works. Instances are per domain, not per IP address. You can change IPs however often you want, as long as your domain points to the right server.

              • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                7 hours ago

                That doesn’t matter to fediverse software. Any new instance on hexbear.net would have errors when trying to federate with other instances, and it probably wouldn’t be able to do so at all. But even if it did manage it, what are you expecting to do to mitigate the errors that arise from other instances referencing users/threads/posts/comments/communities/modlogs that existed on the old instance, but do not exist on the new one?

                • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  5 hours ago

                  referencing users/threads/posts/comments/communities/modlogs that existed on the old instance, but do not exist on the new one

                  Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. It would be a different instance that doesn’t have the same database as the original one.