• freamonEnglish
    131•2 years ago

    That’s a very positive spin on quite a shitty situation (especially if lemmy.ml goes kaputt)

    • ren 🏳️‍🌈 (a they/them)OP
      84•2 years ago

      @freamon Agreed, it’s a silver lining post, for sure.

      But generally I find people say “you see, this is why the Fediverse/Lemmy/Mastodon etc will never take off” for every blip of bad news or whatever. But in reality, while the news sucks for .ml servers, it highlights the resiliency of the Fediverse - which is a win.

      And better to happen in the early days of Lemmy than when/if it got much bigger.

      • P03 LockeEnglish
        9•2 years ago

        Newsflash: It’s getting bigger as we speak. Prepare for all of the scalability problems now, not later when it’s even harder to fix.

        • @Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
          8•2 years ago

          You say that as though there’s some kind of crystal ball we can all look into and see all of the obstacles that will need to be cleared and prepare accordingly. That’s not how scaling web services works, especially distributed ones that are built on a relatively new protocol.

      • freamonEnglish
        44•2 years ago

        True. It might have been better though if the Lemmy devs hadn’t been such cheapskates and forked over the 10 bucks it takes to get a domain name that isn’t sketchy.

        • ZagorathEnglish
          16•2 years ago

          Pretty sure they went with .ml not for price reasons, but because they liked to pretend it stood for their political ideology.

          • freamonEnglish
            9•2 years ago

            Maybe. I read the idea about it standing for Marxist/Leninist, but there’s thousands of TLDs now - if you can get .diamonds and .world, there’s probably something that would evoke the same lefty idea (although maybe lemmy pre-dates the new domains, I don’t know)

            • FlaxEnglish
              6•2 years ago

              New domains have been around for a while. The fancy ones are a bit more pricey.

          • @RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
            19•2 years ago

            The parent domain was apparently well known to be a common host of phishing domains and scam sites. Free domains tend to attract those types, so that’s a good reason from the start not to use that if you want your site to be reliably accessible and findable on search engines.

          • LemdeeEnglish
            8•2 years ago

            I did, I just messed up and didn’t tell anybody. I’m sorry folks, this is on me.

          • RxBradEnglish
            8•2 years ago

            My work uses zScaler for its Internet web filters. zScaler has everything *.ml blocked.

            So yeah, it’s fairly well-known to be sketchy.

              • Quokka
                1•2 years ago

                Or maybe realising anything ending in .ml was most likely spam and if it caught the 5 legitimate Mali domains oh well, zero loss for anyone.

                Kinda like how I wouldn’t download a file from a .ru site.

          • @SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca
            5•2 years ago

            Yes. Hosting a service in a country other than where a TLD is designated for is bad practice and common knowledge for any web developer

        • @emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
          English
          16•2 years ago

          lemmy.ml was a sort of prototype made by the devs of the lemmy software. It wasn’t really meant for widespread public adoption. So it makes sense that they went with a free domain.

      • @ziggurism@lemmy.world
        0•2 years ago

        “Every right”? No. They have the power to do so but that doesn’t make it right. They sold those domains fair and square. Contracts were signed.