Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren’t there more with more common TLDs?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    There’s a few reasons, as well as the ones listed:

    • .ml is a Mali domain which was being given away, so a lot of people snatched one up. This is now coming back to bite them on the ass as Mali want them all back.
    • Some are run by the same team, like the .world ones who have lemmy, mastodon and I think calckey. I don’t think the same goes for all of them (but it may do - the .world ones are just the most high profile examples), .social just makes sense for a Fediverse social media instance.
    • Alex@geddit.socialEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Just to clear something up, CalcKey is now known as Firefish(.social) and that’s run by a completely different person.

      • ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        calckey.world (which runs firefish. firefish.world was afaik taken before they became aware of the rebranding) is ran by the same person as mastodon.world and lemmy.world, i assume that’s what they’re referring to

        • Alex@geddit.socialEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          .world is *a* firefish instance. not the main firefish instance (which is .social).

          so when I said, “it’s not the same person running it” - the flagship instance, if you will, is .social. many of the main people coding it are on .social (afaik). .world is just another instance.

          that was i meant, if i need to clarify : the main main people coding-wise are not the same. the flagship instance (which is not .world) is not run by the same people as the mastodon flagship instance.