Why?

Reason #1: Inciting Incident

As some of you may be aware, the country of Mali is apparently beginning to talk back .ml top level domains. This has already affected other communities and has the potential to affect lemmy.ml (See here for context). This is preemptive act to ensure that what we have build so far is not destroyed.

Reason #2: This community does not align well with lemmy.ml

Lemmy.ml is a FOSS focused instance. At the time of the creation of lemmy.ml/c/ps5, lemmy.world was not even on the map. I established this community very early before the reddit migration and wanted to establish it on what I believed at the time was the "flagship" instance for better discoverability. A lot has changed since then, and I believe this change will be in the best interest of this community moving forward. The Admins on lemmy.world have been wonderful and responsive, and I trust lemmy.world will be a great home for us.

Other people have personal issues with the lemmy.ml instance and its admins, so while this move will help others who dislike lemmy.ml confidently join our community, it is not the primary reason for migrating.

What will happen to lemmy.ml/c/ps5?

Great question. I would love to hear back from other community members on this subject. My initial plans are to pin this thread indefinitely at the top and cease posting news to this community. I will post weekly cross-posts in this community to the discussion threads on lemmy.world/c/ps5, which will have the comments locked, and a comment recommending others subscribe to the new community.

For other users posting here, I will still allow posts, but I will comment in each thread with a reminder to post to the new community. I do not intend to lock these posts at this point in time, however if substantial discussion is happening in these threads I may lock them down.

Please let me know your thoughts below!

-Cosmic

P.S. Special thanks to @Hurts@lemmy.world for transfering me the new community!

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I got very annoyed when we got TLDs like "IO" for Indian Ocean, and then the tech community adopted it for the generic reference of "input output" sounding very techie. Granted, I grumble about everything that goes into site naming for modern tech sites.

There's some good TLDs, and there was never anything wrong with ".net", ".biz", or even ".game". People should stop using the ones designed for particular countries for being convenient abbreviations, and go to intent focus.

[–] Chailles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's not just a matter of convenience, with new TLDs, people have less of an innate bias towards them and it makes it easier to establish a certain identity.

I'll be honest, I would never buy something from a .biz TLD. I don't know why, it just feels sketchy and out of date to me.

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm with you in principle. But realistically, scalper-driven scarcity is a big problem in the big three TLDs, and nearly all the new generic TLDs have at least one of price, governance, or length problems that make them unappealing. Under the circumstances, I can't exactly fault people for choosing regional TLDs.

[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

just want to point out that a majority of they regular names are already taken, that’s one of the primary reasons why new TLDs are such a blessing

[–] kite@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I had no idea that was what that TLD meant. TIL, thank you!