It would be dope if we had "lemmy.com" as a general instance
Can someone buy and donate it to us? :D
Can someone buy and donate it to us? :D
Lol, I love the spirit. However lemmy.org is for sale for 6666,00, so I don't even want to think about how much lemmy.com would cost. If I understand correctly it's owned by GoDaddy atm.
If anything, it should be a malaysian .my TLD so it just ends up being lem.my
instead, but seeing as the entire point of the Fediverse is that there's no one central authority figure, this whole thing seems silly. 🤣
Actually, I thought about getting lem.my and make an instance with it (there are ways to rent it even if you don't live in malaysia and it's not too expensive) but tbh I think websitename.com would be the better option because it's the most common format.
Or .world! Sounds very general too ;-) You could even setup a general Mastodon server on a .world, betcha it would work!
I looked it up on namecheap, which is where I get my domains from. It might be a different price on other sites though, not sure as I haven't checked.
Valid thought, but I doubt anyone really thinks about .com as commercial these days.
For me .com is just "oh that's an international website"
eh, it would just end up overwhelmed with users like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org.