cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1934052
We are moving this community to https://lemmy.world/c/ps5
Subscribe here: !ps5@lemmy.world
Why?
Reason #1: Inciting Incident
- As some of you may be aware, the country of Mali is apparently beginning to talk back .ml top level domains. This has already affected other communities and has the potential to affect lemmy.ml (See here for context). This is preemptive act to ensure that what we have build so far is not destroyed.
Reason #2: This community does not align well with lemmy.ml
- Lemmy.ml is a FOSS focused instance. At the time of the creation of lemmy.ml/c/ps5, lemmy.world was not even on the map. I established this community very early before the reddit migration and wanted to establish it on what I believed at the time was the “flagship” instance for better discoverability. A lot has changed since then, and I believe this change will be in the best interest of this community moving forward. The Admins on lemmy.world have been wonderful and responsive, and I trust lemmy.world will be a great home for us.
- Other people have personal issues with the lemmy.ml instance and its admins, so while this move will help others who dislike lemmy.ml confidently join our community, it is not the primary reason for migrating.
What will happen to lemmy.ml/c/ps5?
- Great question. I would love to hear back from other community members on this subject. My initial plans are to pin this thread indefinitely at the top and cease posting news to this community. I will post weekly cross-posts in this community to the discussion threads on lemmy.world/c/ps5, which will have the comments locked, and a comment recommending others subscribe to the new community.
- For other users posting here, I will still allow posts, but I will comment in each thread with a reminder to post to the new community. I do not intend to lock these posts at this point in time, however if substantial discussion is happening in these threads I may lock them down.
Please let me know your thoughts below!
-Cosmic
P.S. Special thanks to @Hurts@lemmy.world for transfering me the new community!
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Leaving an instance curated by and for tankies is a good call.
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From a man that married his first cousin lmao that tracks.
Okay Einstein…
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Does the end always justifies the means?
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Hmm…
IDK, I think a big thing with federation should be communities being spread out, instead of centralized in one instance. I totally get why you would want to move away from
lemmy.ml, both on account of the Mali government and feeling like it doesn’t fit, but why not move to, say, Lemmy.zip or Derpzilla.net, since they’re tech and gaming focused instances? I get discoverability, but on the other hand, wouldn’t being on an instance of people that are more likely to care about a certain topic be better for discoverability too?IDK, just saying. Hope all goes well with your community!
I second this. Lemmy.zip seems like the logical choice here.
i personally would be reticent to move anything to lemmy.zip, given the issues with .zip domains. especially on lemmy, with the @'s in the urls
but i don’t have a ps5, so i don’t have a horse in this race
Yeah I agree. I’m really shocked zip even became a TLD. It’s a phishers dream come true pretty much.
Hello Zeus, I’ve attached the invoice here, please click to open it. invoice.zip
And for the click conscious,
Recently .zip became a publicly available top-level domain. Please consider contacting ICANN who coordinates all domains on the Internet, or Google which is the sponsor and registry for .zip and voice your opinion on the gTLD. Hopefully with enough pushback they will prioritize our collective good above other factors and shut down the gTLD
that’s a good point, i hasn’t considered writing to icann (not that i have a very high opinion of them these days). i don’t suppose there’s a template letter anywhere to save me writing one?
also by the way, i love your netscape avatar
I tried following the link but the process was confusing enough that I gave up lol.
what link? am i going mad?
Yeah at invoice.zip
I got very annoyed when we got TLDs like “IO” for Indian Ocean, and then the tech community adopted it for the generic reference of “input output” sounding very techie. Granted, I grumble about everything that goes into site naming for modern tech sites.
There’s some good TLDs, and there was never anything wrong with “.net”, “.biz”, or even “.game”. People should stop using the ones designed for particular countries for being convenient abbreviations, and go to intent focus.
just want to point out that a majority of they regular names are already taken, that’s one of the primary reasons why new TLDs are such a blessing
Maybe look into creating your own instance (or even a gaming focused instance), like !android@lemdro.id
I considered this, but I do not have the resources to run my own instance. There are some gaming focused instances that are popping up, but for now the most established gaming communities are on lemmy.world. Plus, I dont know much about those instance admins to trust blindly diving in with them. I am very happy with the lemmy.world admins and think they are doing a great job. They also have a successful track record with their mastodon instance, sot I have confidence in them longer term.
I will keep this in mind for a future migration to something like PS6 (or if some other catastrophe comes along lol).
