What would happen if I changed fedi server software but keep same domain?
from Wawe@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 06:38
https://lemmy.world/post/32849439
from Wawe@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 06:38
https://lemmy.world/post/32849439
For example I would selfhost Mastodon with me@fedi.com but then decide to change the server software to GoToSocial but keep the same me@fedi.com. Would everyone who was following me@fedi.com keep me in their follower list or would whole fediverse crash?
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I’m not a technical person, so i don’t really know, but from a blog i read about switching from lemmy to piefed, i guess there should be some problems :
while I don’t know the answer to the question, I am very certain that
is not it; if that could make the whole fediverse crash, someone could do it maliciously. At most it will cause problems delivering your messages or delivering messages to you.
quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.
Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.
Very interesting.
Didn’t think such a “dirty” method of moving from Lemmy to Piefed would work
I changed Ruud.social from akkoma to sharkey. It still works.
I changed kbin.earth from kbin to Mbin, and it's been working great. It definitely helps that Mbin is a fork of kbin.
It definitely depends on the software, for example in matrix you can easily cause federation issues in some cases. this won’t blow up the fediverse, but it could impact the user experience if they rely on or interact with that instance.