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?

  • flathead@quex.ccEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. After you log into your own instance, you don’t need to remember any other url, so instance urls don’t really matter - it’s just an address for the instance.
    2. Less sought-after domain suffixes are significantly cheaper to register than .com and you can usually get what you want for a prefix (main reason)
    3. Lemmy instances are not dot coms by nature so they may as well be something else.