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It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something.

There's nothing wrong with doing that, obviously, but it's struck me as another interesting quirk of fediverse instances/sites. Generally as soon as you visit them you can tell by the site interface or an icon somewhere what software they're using.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I made a new subdomain "Lemmy" to www.mindoki.com.

Edit: for those who didn't get it, so to go to Lemmy it is now lemmy.mindoki.com

I mean what should I have done? It's a Lemmy server, not an instance so who knows what it'll end up being. And dead.mindoki.com seems a bit too foreboding.

Cheers :-)

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

back in the day, it wasnt uncommon for people to use exchange.whatever.com for their email host, clearly exchange being the microsoft product.

i prefer either an abstract name (smurfs) or something specific to its purpose.

in my ancient world view, www. is your website host, mail. is your email host, etc. a good generic for the fediverse would be something like social.mydomain.com

then if you change software, you don't have to lose connectivity.

i went loopy with moist.catsweat.com running mbin