cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25850709

Coming from a different instance, I genuinely did not notice the events, it was an interesting summary to watch.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I've rarely seen it for .ee and .ml.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It kinda varies for me.

.ee gets referenced less for sure. The folks I know that have used lemmy longest will do the dot ee, or double-e. Noobs tend to fumble with it, as in "lemmy with two ees at the end" and eventually go with whatever they've heard spoken most.

But .ml always gets the . I believe that's because there's no shorthand for it verbally. Mull? Mill? Mall? Too many options for most folks to bother trying.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No not always. Just as ".world" I usually see called rather LW, so too ML works. And yours would be SJW:-). Maybe that's mostly my conversations with Blaze but I've definitely seen LW used elsewhere, though I can't recall ever seeing someone saying .world. Perhaps I simply wasn't paying proper attention:-).

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, always irl for me which I had stated previously.

I'm talking about humans in meat space saying the dot out loud. Because that's what the comment I was responding to seemed to be about.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Oh okay, so not that they say "dot world" when referring to lemmy.world (bc almost nobody talks about Lemmy irl from what I can see:-), but in the general sense they say whatever comes after the dot out loud, I get you now (I think):-).