Submitted 11 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Every time I browse lemmyverse.net, I see one of the top instances in terms of registered users is enterprise.lemmy.ml. Right now it has 54.2k users, putting it behind lemmy.world and ahead of lemmy.ml. However, if I go there, there’s almost no content, even on All (which implies it’s not federated). Is it a test instance with fake users or something?
Is it a test instance with fake users or something? A test instance yes! I think the users are real people posting test stuff t
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Looks like a test instance. URLs are read from the end to the beginning, so enterprise.lemmy.ml is a domain controlled by lemmy.ml. As that is the instance that the main developers control, it would follow they have a testing environment. In addition. Almost all the posts, users, and communities seem to have “test” as part of their name. It being the instance controlled by the developers is why lemmy.ml is always a link, while lemmy.world would need to be formatted as a link to get a link.
It being the instance controlled by the developers is why lemmy.ml is always a link, while lemmy.world would need to be formatted as a link to get a link.
That has nothing to do with it being a “instance controlled by the developers”. .world simply won’t be auto-linked since it’s a to common of a word (my guess anyway).
you can type in any valid domain and it will link them.
google.com test.com whateever.ch
but it will never work “.world”
anything.world
.world is a newer gTLD whereas .ml is a more well known country code TLD. whatever auto linking code the lemmy UI uses likely just isn’t up to date with all these comparatively recent TLDs
Fun fact: reddit still allows this too. Eg. panelshow.reddit.com = reddit.com/panelshow
If anyone has an alternative to that subreddit, I'd be most grateful, obviously. It's the only one I still visit.
russjr08@bitforged.space 11 months ago
Yep, it’s a test instance. There’s a couple of other ones as well, voyager.lemmy.ml and ds9.lemmy.ml
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
LOL from the name I immediately assumed they were testing features for business users.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Would that make plain lemmy.ml TOS (the original servers)?