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Is it possible to change lemmy's domain after I have already started it once and produced some content? I am thinking of moving to a subdomain but I'm not sure if it will go smoothly

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[-] koper@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago

You can, but other servers will not recognize it as the same server.

There are however ways to run your server on a subdomain and make it appear as if it's still the original domain. Is that what you're looking for?

[-] Andreas@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Is renaming the instance domain without reinstalling Lemmy related to changing the WebFinger query? It's the trick some instances use to have a different instance domain from their username domain, like @user@domain.com while the instance is mastodon.domain.com.

[-] koper@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, that was what I was referring to. However, this is assuming that Lemmy has properly implemented webfinger and doesn't store direct links (which I haven't checked).

Alternatively, you could proxy all requests with application/activity+json in the Accept or Content-type headers.

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