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

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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Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 06:48 next collapse

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 :

I also changed the URL from jemmy.jeena.net to piefed.jeena.net because I don’t want the other instances to be confused when suddenly a different software with different contents is available under the same domain. But I’m thinking to start up Lemmy and unsubscribe from all communities and to delete the one community I have on my Lemmy instance which has only very few subscribers.

That at least would be a somewhat clean way to dispose of this lemmy instance. Oh and I should return a 410 Gone to indicate that it’s permanently gone.

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de on 12 Jul 06:58 next collapse

while I don’t know the answer to the question, I am very certain that

or would whole fediverse crash

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.

rimu@piefed.social on 12 Jul 07:03 next collapse

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.

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 08:57 collapse

Very interesting.

Didn’t think such a “dirty” method of moving from Lemmy to Piefed would work

ruud@piefed.world on 12 Jul 13:00 next collapse

I changed Ruud.social from akkoma to sharkey. It still works.

jwr1@kbin.earth on 12 Jul 15:16 next collapse

I changed kbin.earth from kbin to Mbin, and it's been working great. It definitely helps that Mbin is a fork of kbin.

JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Jul 16:32 collapse

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.