this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Can someone buy and donate it to us? :D

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If money wasn't an issue for me I would do it in an "instant" lul.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I donate to this cause?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol, I love the spirit. However lemmy.org is for sale for 6666,00, so I don't even want to think about how much lemmy.com would cost. If I understand correctly it's owned by GoDaddy atm.

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

Well lmk if you start collecting!

[–] ruud 14 points 1 year ago

Or .world! Sounds very general too ;-) You could even setup a general Mastodon server on a .world, betcha it would work!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not a bad idea, however I would prefer https://lemmyverse.net/ if so.

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

If anything, it should be a malaysian .my TLD so it just ends up being lem.my instead, but seeing as the entire point of the Fediverse is that there's no one central authority figure, this whole thing seems silly. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, I thought about getting lem.my and make an instance with it (there are ways to rent it even if you don't live in malaysia and it's not too expensive) but tbh I think websitename.com would be the better option because it's the most common format.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but when did 'most common' matter to a social network trying to push a totally different paradigm of federation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll likely be spinning up a ".social" instance.

It seems silly to me to name an instance after the engine that makes the car go.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] PlutoniumAcid 4 points 1 year ago

Here's where we point out someone has registered spez.sucks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lmao I wouldn't even be surprised if he already bought it.

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

eh, it would just end up overwhelmed with users like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whistles so uh, anyone here got $24,000 they don't mind giving up for the Fediverse? :D

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

Is that how much it would cost? How did you find out?

[–] Izzy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised nobody has bought this domain yet. Unless all the domain registrars list it at some ludicrous price.

[–] ronalicious 1 points 1 year ago

squatters gonna squat :/

[–] AlmightySnoo 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

".com" stands for "Commercial". I'd like if that wasn't the goal of any Lemmy instances

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

Valid thought, but I doubt anyone really thinks about .com as commercial these days.

For me .com is just "oh that's an international website"