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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I suspect they skipped checking who controls that domain at the time and just saw that it would make for a good name. Not good practice but I can see how that happened.

The only shame here is that there is no way for an instance to "prove" it is the successor to a defunct domain.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A lot of Lemmy and Mastadon instances have really obnoxious names. I hope they learn from this as use a conventional domain/TLD, and not some random ass countries who could get taken away at any minute.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is my instance in danger? 😱 Will Luxembourg disappear overnight?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You never know when the Luxembourgish taliban will take over.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

NOONE EXPECTS THE LUXEMBORGIAN TALIBAN!

[–] kautau 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fact that pornhub is HQ’d in Luxembourg leads me to believe this will be some sort of sexy taliban

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Stupid sexy Taliban!

[–] ammonium 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We are ready to reunite Luxembourg any day now, better get ready to move to the be tld.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] ammonium 1 points 9 months ago

No, of course not

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I suspect they skipped checking who controls that domain at the time and just saw that it would make for a good name. Not good practice but I can see how that happened.

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/4648694/To-the-people-who-are-like-What-did-you-expect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ahh. I have several domains and a lot of experience with managing various services, but I'm unfamiliar with any requirements regarding the federation process itself. I imagine this may be challenging, but not impossible to handle. Yet another level of suck in this situation.