This explains the downtime.

Me too. I’ve now migrated to feddit.uk , I was lucky that I had locally cached pages for my subscriptions so I was able to replicate them, all be it manually, but at least i now have a new instance with all my subs.

I’ve migrated from fmhy to feddit.uk, luckily my subscriptions were on a cached web page soon was able to manually re-subscribe.

Looks like I was wrong and it appears that Mali has been recaliming the .ml domain that they were using, so hopefully they’ll be back. According to the post they have backups etc. so once they sort out a new domain they may be back. Fingers crossed.

The comments/posts I made on other instances via that account are still there and i’m guessing will remain so but bookmarks/subscriptions etc. start from scratch.

Not entirely sure but it was a piracy focused instance so best guess is they recieved a takedown request.

You could also be in a position where the insurance just disappears.

I joined lemmy.fmhy.ml which has now disappeared, from what I gather they received a take down notice.

So whilst but important which instance in general being with a reputable one can matter.