It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something.

There's nothing wrong with doing that, obviously, but it's struck me as another interesting quirk of fediverse instances/sites. Generally as soon as you visit them you can tell by the site interface or an icon somewhere what software they're using.

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[–] aurelian@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

As someone with senior experience in cloud engineering here is my input, naming things is hard.

And God forbid you decide down the line you need a sub domain the terror of having service-b.service-a.com give me the chills.

But yeah 100% naming thing is difficult so you end up naming it after the software and using the group as the parent domain