This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • Quimby [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Thoughts on the use of geographic domains for vanity purposes? I know that’s come up recently as a topic of concern (including with lemmy, specifically), and personally, it seems like it’s both extremely widespread and also maybe shouldn’t have become super widespread given the actual implications.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      I’ve talked about this elsewhere, but the whole DNS system seems US-controlled and broken to me, and is essentially a privatization of the commons. A lot of historically free ones now seem to be getting yanked. So far I think lemmy.ml has been safe because its a paid one, but its a concern. Either way, if any of these have to move domain names, it’ll be an annoying hassle, but it won’t mean the death of lemmy or anything.