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?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.
    • Alex@geddit.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just to clear something up, CalcKey is now known as Firefish(.social) and that’s run by a completely different person.