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MicroWave Jun 18, 2023

Lemmy.world officially has 30k users!

Lemmy.world officially has 30k users! - Lemmy.world

Wow, since my post yesterday, lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/] has added 2000+ new users to cross the 30000 user mark! Just think, it was only at 20k three days ago. Crazy growth. With that, lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/] is the clear second largest lemmy instance and has left the third largest instance beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org]’s 12k in the dust. It’s now within 6000 users to overtake the #1 spot from lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] (their registration is closed). Exciting to see this growth! What are some of your favorite communities on lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/] so far? To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list]

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YellowtoOrange Jun 18, 2023

Is it true that the .ml part stands for "marx-lenin" or is this misinformation?

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mwlczk Jun 18, 2023

Officially it is the domain of "Mali" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

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YellowtoOrange Jun 18, 2023

That's for http addresses, isn't it? The ending of a lemmy instance is likely completely different - as you don't find url domains ending in ".world" or ".social".

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mwlczk

DNS-Names are not bound/specific to a protocol/service type. Of course some might fit better for a serivce, e.g. the top level domain ".im" fits "Instant Messaging" (e.g xmpp, matrix ...) services well. But still you could host a Website (https-protocol) on the same address. The list of valid top level domains is not static. new TLDs are being approved constantly. This means e.g. ".world" is a valid Top Level Domain but not many/big services use it for now, so it is rather unknown.