• Etterra@discuss.online
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    1 month 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?

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      1 month 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.ee
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        1 month 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 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 month 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.