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cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/3172728

One small step for Lemmy, one big step for us :) While I don't aim to be a big instance, it's exciting that people are using it πŸ™‚ Thanks everyone for this!

On this occasion, I would like to ask a little question. What do you think, if we make the instance humor/meme focused instead of general-purpose? I think the hostname is very appropriate. I've also read that Lemmy developers prefer more focused instances over general-purpose. So IDK what do you think??

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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally I like having a general purpose instance, but I think a mix of general purpose and some other things might work?

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yea. A little general interest that’s mostly local to your instance can always be good. And then a specific focus on top.

Should newer features like multi communities and sorts that surface smaller communities come out, smaller general purpose communities might quite cool.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interesting πŸ€” Maybe lemmy.zip's behaviour is suitable for us too. Their description is "A Lemmy community for everyone, with a focus towards tech, PCs, and gaming".

[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think most tech people would block everything with .zip. it is blocked on my network at least. Sounds weird to have a tech instance with that TLD.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK I find it funny πŸ™‚

[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is some more info on why its a bad TLD:
https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5

Sorry for it being a medium article.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a web dev for almost 6 years, didn't know we can authenticate through URL 🀦 It really looks scary.

[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its whats also referred to as basic auth. These days its mostly in a header, but it used to be in the url like the example.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah just tried that and worked! I like it thanks