Comment on If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?

zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not with that attitude.

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• Lost_My_Mind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So Social is the domain, and Mastodon/Piefed are the instances in my example?

  If that's the case, why not make everything (instance).com?

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    why not make everything (instance).com?

    The cost of a (word).com domain can be tens of thousands of dollars if nobody owns it to millions of dollars if someone does. The cost of a (word).social domain is like $10.

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The cost of a .com Domain can be under $10/year

      I just bought bitwaba.com for like 8.49 a couple months ago.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The last few letters are called a TLD, they show what type of site it is, .com-mercial, .org-anisation, .net-work, etc.

    The actual site/instance is the part before it.

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  • braindefragger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mastodon.social is the address to that specific Mastodon instance. Take a look at this site for more info.

    why not make everything (instance).com?

    I’m not exactly sure what you mean by that? Are you suggesting everyone to use a ().com? If so, because they are rarely available and if they are, quite expensive.

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  • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    .com, .net, .org, and .social are called Top Level Domains

    You can register a second level domain (e.g. “google”, "lemmy”, “cnn”) with a specific TLD, resulting in a domain name (e.g. “google.com”, “lemmy.social”, “cnn.com”)

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We have our instance on .ca for example, since we’re a Canadian instance. Other instances might use .eu being in the EU, or .fr for France

    Some instances pick the TLD (.com, .ca, .org, etc.) to have a fun name. For example, sh.itjust.works

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    .com is for commercial sites (though many sites misuse it). Most Mastodon instances are not commercial.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really.

    Both mastodon.social and piefed.social are domain names that point to instances.

    The last part of the domain name after the dot like .com or .social doesn’t really mean anything.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because using .com for everything is boring, especially when you can use TLDs like .ninja .dad .rocks or .party

    The real reason is we will run out of useful .com domains sooner or later, so adding more TLDs means more people can affordably rent a domain

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• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there are already a few versions of lemmy gold floating around, but they arent used much. i like this one

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• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The devout Christians currently going through a crisis on whether to go “Jesus is in all of us, thus yes” or “Our boy J don’t want none o’ that nastiness”.

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