2mo ago

Fediverse.com is available for sale

How is that even possible???

If he wanted to, couldn't spez just buy it, and make it serve as a redirect to reddit? I don't understand how SOMEONE hasn't bought/used this domain for fediverse purposes.

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send the money to lemmy devs instead of a domain.
- I'd rather send it to a non-tankie platform. I regret my previous financial contributions.
  
  Software works regardless of their political posturing. Your baker might be a nazi as well.
  
  I assume you'll delete your Lemmy account and move to another platform soon then?
  
  internet tribalism is my faaaavourite <3
  do you really need to start fights with people that are striving for the same goal, just because you have differing opinions on other things? do you think that different political parties should never work together?
  my opinion is otherwise
  
  Piefed :)
  
  Then kindly use something else.
How much is it?
- $500k
  https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?domain=Fediverse.com
  https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?domainToCheck=Fediverse.com
  
  Lol, that's insane. I hope everybody saves their money for better things.
  
  What a ridiculous price.
  
  You get free business cards with it. For 500k you get free business cards. Still got pay extra for the rest though what a rip off.
  
  Holy shit. Fuck that.
  
  I'll give them $20 Final offer
  
  If every Lemmy user donated $1...
  You still wouldn't have enough, but you'd be close.
- You have to fill out a form to inquire about price. So I don't know.
someone should start a fundraiser so we can buy it
The idea there should be some definitive, canonical domain for the Fediverse is somewhat at odds with the core tenents of the Fediverse itself - decentralisation, and no single point of ownership or control. And on that basis, we absolutely should not care about a particular domain, or assign any level of 'specialness' to it.
I understand your worry - that some 'bad actor' could buy the domain and do something anti-Fediverse with it and mislead the public, but my response would be to simply not worry. The strength of the Fediverse is that we are diverse and unbothered by whatever nonsense some centralised platform is trying to pull. We don't have a profit motive. We don't care.
People who want to find the real Fediverse will absolutely still find us, all on their own, regardless of who owns some random domain :)
The .org seems to require a log in. I wonder what entity has these domains. I imagine the folks working to manifest the fediverse don't have the capacity to buy up all the possible domains.
- It also doesn't even make sense to buy up all the possible domains. It would just be a waste of money, and surely someone could come up with a domain name that you didn't think of (fediverse-network.com).
  
  Very true! The whole domain squatting thing is pretty bizarre to me.
Don't give any money to domain squatters.
I don't think reddit would care enough to try and defend itself against lemmy. Lemmy isn't that much of a big threat for them.
- Yet.
  
  Yet.

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