Rev. Andi N. Fiziks
So, I have an instance on a subdomain, london.fetish.church, and I'm wanting to move to the apex domain, fetish.church.
1. Is it possible to lift-and-shift an instance? If I change the config and update all mentions in any db dumps, would putting a redirecting microservice at the old subdomain work for not breaking old statuses?
2. If not, what's the best way of migrating all my users to new accounts on a new instance?
THANK YOU :heart_parrot:
realcaseyrollins
I was going to tag the biggest #Fediverse admins I know of, but decided not to since theyβre all feuding π
This is a great question!
realcaseyrollins
Haha yes! Perhaps I should ask people one at a time!
@stux, do you have advice on this?
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@realcaseyrollins @andi I do! :blobcatgiggle:
It's actually very simple, the "right" answer is no :sad_dog:
With all federation services like Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey etc etc they all handle the same "basic rule": Everything BUT the hostname can be changed after it starts federating! Since it will break federation with already existing connections π
It not recommended to change the hostname but to simply fireup a new instance and move accounts accordingly β€οΈ
Rev. Andi N. Fiziks
@realcaseyrollins Oh god, hellthreading a bunch of people who are fighting would be a nightmare π
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