• Evotech@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 days 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
      32·
      1 day 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
        41·
        24 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
            3·
            22 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
              21·
              21 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.