this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2021
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This is due to wanting to separate the lemmy flagship instance from the onboarding site.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This will also hopefully solve the issue with spam filters not liking the .ml domain!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Only for the join site, not for this instance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Still a good thing. Now people can link to the join site and then be redirected to this or any other instance!

I do really like how lemmy.ml rolls off the tongue though, it definitely grew on me. Not sure if I'd ever want to change that just because of some spam filters tbh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Same, its short and I'm used to it now... the only things it'd be worth to change to would be like .org or .com, and those are owned or incredibly expensive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Honestly, blocking TLDs is a really dumb way of spam filtering. Pretty much all the spam/scam sites I've seen are on paid TLDs anyway.

Also, fuck domain flipping. I hate it when people try to sell domains at ludicrous prices. It only harms the internet as a whole and accomplishes nothing of value.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

fuck domain flipping.

i accidentally typed .com instead of .org for a site a few days ago and the domain name was being sat on.. with a purchase price of $15,000!!! like wth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

That's someones rent for a year in some places. Truly outrageous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

i keep wondering- is ml for mainland, marxism-leninism, or something else?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

It's the domain name for the country Mali.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

have you considered changing the colors on that site? the contrast in the links vs the text isn't very high and it is difficult to read all the text with the background. i can't help but wonder if a light theme that was #000 on #fff and a dark theme that was the opposite (with prefer browser theme rule) would be better for accessibility? just a thought. ☺

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

A darker background image would help. But w/ respect to the links vs the text, they're a different color.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is amazing idea :)