konaltJul 23, 2023

Why do Lemmy instances have such obscure TLDs?

https://lemmy.world/post/2010270

Why do Lemmy instances have such obscure TLDs? - Lemmy.world

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?

Show threadᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝Jul 23, 2023

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.
Show threadAlex
Just to clear something up, CalcKey is now known as Firefish and they’re run by completely different people.
Jul 23, 2023 at 2:14amWeb
Show threadkopper [they/them]Jul 24, 2023
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
Show threadAlexJul 24, 2023

Well, if you’re going to be technical, they run 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. the main people coding it are on .social (afaik). .world is just another instance.

so both of us are right…kindasorta, it depends how you define “what is a calckey server”.