cross-posted from: https://lemmy.tf/post/358212

On a serious note, if you’re adept at coding or database design, please have a look at the GitHub issues regarding account and community migration (#1985 and #3075 if I remember correctly) as those things may be desperately needed.

  • Ryantific_theory@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    Well, I guess it’s good for Lemmy to get this out of the way now, so when it happens again in the future, everything will have already been worked out.

  • cinaed666@kbin.social
    17·
    1 year ago

    It’s completely valid for them to do so. Their Top Level Domain meant for their purposes.
    Even though it’s rarely enforced, many TLDs have specific purposes and conditions against abusing it for unrelated purposes.
    There are many others to pick from.

    • taanegl@beehaw.org
      18·
      1 year ago

      This. There’s a reason why “novelty domains” like .movies and so forth exist, let alone .org, .com and .net. National domain extensions are meant purely for things within that country. Reason being that domains are namespaces, which starts with subdomins, domain and then extension. It’s purposefully designed like that. It’s sort of more common to use namespaces in the reverse, like on Android an app might have the namespace:

      com.google.Android.someUtil

      Likewise, a flathub package might have the namespace:

      org.dannyWhale.Vivaldi

      Domain names are meant to let you specify the destination first by reversing it:

      vivaldi.dannywhale.org

      It’s meant to contextualise your destination, and the source from which you stand.

      Country codes are important paths to have, allowing similar domains in different countries and a directory for local businesses, government bodies and organizations. It’s categorical and should remain as such.

      Do not go off spec.

    • RogueTyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      From what I heard mali government claimed some lemmy instances with .ml like fmhy, there were also few more issues stacked on this but not sure if its relevant

  • Dustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I hope that something like web3 domains might fix things like this someday. Instead of borrowing the domain from a registrar, the immutable record is owned and maintained by you.

    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      ICANN makes too much money off of .com domains to allow anything else to be successful.

  • Snart@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    (Old radio voice) “MLs seethe as Mali government reclaims the ‘.ml’ domain…”