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Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse! (lemmy.world)

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why .social? Why not .us?

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Just as an example, really.

A lot of Masto servers I’ve seen have use the .social extension. I feel like it does lend itself to letting people know what to expect when seeing a handle that ends with .social. It’s maybe an easy connection to make that that’s some sort of social media entity.

They certainly don’t have to use that type of url, but I think it’d be cool and it makes sense for what it is.

I’ve thought that news stations should do the same, too. Like an @news@cnn.social would be cool and have built in verification simply because they could lock down its users to only approved people so you’d know that @wolf@cnn.social is definitely Wolf Blitzer. No need for checkmarks.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I have no idea who Wolf Blitzer is, but for example there are social.network.europa.eu, social.bund.de and social.kernel.org. So US can use social.gov.us

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. Making a subdomain like that also works. And maybe is even easier for existing domains.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

And you don't even pay for subdomains

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

They really went for a double subdomain and network.europa.eu is not even a thing. Also it's insufficiently Latin. curia.europa.eu and consilium.europa.eu is proper, europarl.europa.eu already makes much less sense it should be senatus.europa.eu.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's how registrars start cranking up the renewal price for .social domains.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

#strongerICANN

ICANN's renewal fee is $0.18

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

poontang.gov.social

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

.us is sketchy AF. They should use something.gov.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

.gov domain should be either abolished or allowed for use by any governments. Of course US is sketchy AF.

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That would be confusing. I want to be able to tell govt.nz apart from the US one.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think their preference is to have US government under .gov.us

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago

.gov is allowed for use by any governments that invented the internet.