I second this. Lemmy.zip seems like the logical choice here.
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gon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hmm…
IDK, I think a big thing with federation should be communities being spread out, instead of centralized in one instance. I totally get why you would want to move away from lemmy.ml, both on account of the Mali government and feeling like it doesn’t fit, but why not move to, say, Lemmy.zip or Derpzilla.net, since they’re tech and gaming focused instances? I get discoverability, but on the other hand, wouldn’t being on an instance of people that are more likely to care about a certain topic be better for discoverability too?
IDK, just saying. Hope all goes well with your community!
Jambalaya@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Zeus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
i personally would be reticent to move anything to lemmy.zip, given the issues with .zip domains. especially on lemmy, with the @'s in the urls
but i don’t have a ps5, so i don’t have a horse in this race
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah I agree. I’m really shocked zip even became a TLD. It’s a phishers dream come true pretty much.
Hello Zeus, I’ve attached the invoice here, please click to open it. invoice.zip
And for the click conscious,
Recently .zip became a publicly available top-level domain. Please consider contacting ICANN who coordinates all domains on the Internet, or Google which is the sponsor and registry for .zip and voice your opinion on the gTLD. Hopefully with enough pushback they will prioritize our collective good above other factors and shut down the gTLD
Zeus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
that’s a good point, i hasn’t considered writing to icann (not that i have a very high opinion of them these days). i don’t suppose there’s a template letter anywhere to save me writing one?
also by the way, i love your netscape avatar
Mereo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It will take a while to get away from the centralized world view of Reddit. To me, instances are like countries with their own constitution (rules) and police (mods). This means that two communities in different instances may seem the same, but they are not, because they have to follow the rules and culture of their instance.
Just like a PS5 club in Germany will not be the same as the PS5 club in the US because they will be culturally different. I think it will take some time for the Fediverse to think this way.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think that pragmatically splitting up the active users like this “isn’t worth it” yet, the entire network is still fairly small all things considered. For the largest general topics like general gaming, posting pictures, politics, etc. it may be fine, but anything even slightly more niche than that will have trouble keeping an active userbase if there’s multiple communities across multiple instances.
gon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t really like the country analogy but I do agree with your overall point. I think, as Lemmy gets bigger, more people will actually look into different instances and join the ones they relate to or want to participate in the most.
As you said, it’ll take some time, but I do think it’s only a matter of time, if that makes sense haha
CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is a very good and fair point. I did consider this and was beginning to actively investigate something like this already, specifically lemmy.zip. I have been pondering a move to something more appropriate for awhile now. Unfortunately the Mali situation is forcing my hand to act more quickly, and I wanted to pick an instance that has a known track record. The World admins have successfully run both lemmy.world as well as their mastodon instances. I do not know much about the gaming-centric instances and their admins enough to jump in blindly at this time. If I had more time to develop those connections with them, I would have done so (and was planning to do so).
I do think that something like a gaming-centric instance this is the way forward long-term and supports the Fediverse’s values and it will be something I deeply consider when evaluating a potential future migration due to future circumstances or for something like a PS6 community establishment. If there were ever a way to more easily migrate communities, I will also consider this down the line.
gon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah that’s a great point actually, and I believe it’s in development as we speak. A lot of people have asked for that feature.
CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When it comes, I will consider it