• miles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s called a single-point of failure in Engineering.

    For that instance, yes. For the whole of Lemmy, no. Everything else keeps on chugging along.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed.

      Imagine if this had happenned to a centralized system like Reddit…

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        1 year ago

        A centralized system wouldn’t have this problem since the only reason they can’t just use another domain name is because of refederation. A great example of this happening is piracy websites, which notoriously get shutdown only to pop up five minutes later with a new domain.

        This is actually a critical flaw IMO in federated applications as a whole. Not being able to change domain names makes your entire platform (as an instance runner) tightly coupled to the initial decision you make when first setting up the instance.