It occurs to me that once an instance is federating, and especially if follow relationships are established, that renaming an instance (e.g. changing domain names, etc.) is not advisable.

Are there any established best practices, or am I destined to lose all of my followers?

Perhaps maybe as:Move for every actor, though that requires that both source and destination instances be live.

@julian FEP-ef61 makes everything domain-independent, including posts.

as:Move will only move followers, but it can work when source is offline too (FEP-7628 pull mode).

@julian @BeAware if by not advisable you mean not possible, yeah.

You won’t be able to reuse the domain/subdomain later on if you take down your instance unless you have a self destruct function. And even then -every- server you’ve federated with has to be contacted for it to work correctly.

It’s fun