Lemmy communities are run by volunteers who are often footing the bill themselves to run. Without these people Lemmy would not exist. One/some of these people decided to save themselves a few bucks a month and get a .zip domain. There’s nothing wrong with lemmy.zip
Well put. Your explanation has me most confident I should avoid lemmy.zip communities for the time being--thx
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
lol there is nothing wrong with Lemmy.zip. It’s a legit Lemmy instance and the communities are safe.
The concern is that someone might try to make a website / URL appear to be a zip file you can download and open. But Lemmy.zip is not doing that.
Also you are on a different Lemmy instance, so you never interact with Lemmy.zip directly. Instead, behind the scenes, your instance exchanges data with Lemmy.zip, and all other instances it is federated with, regardless of whether you personally subscribe to any .zip communities or not.
tisktisk@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
If the concern is legit, wouldn't it be an ethical practice to not support services that use the problematic TLD?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not everything needs an ethical practice.