Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy!

beSyl@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• a14o@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I disagree, it’s a fitting name, and I don’t have to type it unless I want to link to it.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Plus, I mean, unless you’re using a Threadiverse host as your home instance, how often are you typing its name?

    Having a hyphen is RFC-conformant:

    RFC 952:

    1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
    to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
    sign (-), and period (.).  Note that periods are only allowed when
    they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
    RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
    background).  No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
    name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case.  The first
    character must be an alpha character.  The last character must not be
    a minus sign or period.  A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have
    "-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name.  Hosts which do not serve as
    Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of
    their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last
    part of its host name, if it is a DoD host.  Single character names
    or nicknames are not allowed.
    

    RFC 1123:

       The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
       [DNS:4].  One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
       restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
       letter or a digit.  Host software MUST support this more liberal
       syntax.
    
       Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and
       SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters.
    

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Domain names are important people.

  Damn, TIL

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• ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Changing the domain of a lemmy instance is quite hard. (Already did it once during testing). And I don’t think indie-ver.se is that hard to spell. Anyways, I am not asking the 100+ users who subscribed to change it, but I do see your point.

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  • beSyl@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ya, I know. But a few months/years, it is going to be even harder.

    indieTalk.TLD indieBoard.TLD indieForum.TLD indieIndie.TLD indieGaming.TLD indieLemmy.TLD Indielem.TLD indieVerse.TLD indieUniverse.TLD indieMingle.TLD indieNow.TLD indieSocial.TLD

    Just some ideas. If you decide to keep the domain name, I wish you the best. Regardless, welcome to Lemmy brother! The more the merrier.

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• datavoid@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Off topic but when I first joined Lemmy I was on booty.world, I still can’t believe that instance shut down!

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, I agree with you in principle - domain names can matter. I remember people were similarly concerned about lemmy.zip back when it launched since .zip links on the internet can be… not so great.

  In this case though I don’t see it, I think indie-ver.se is a great name and super fitting (assuming I’m right that it’s an instance themed around indie games).

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• ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think indie-ver.se isn’t hard to type or hard to spell. Proof me wrong.

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