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What's a good instance to be on at the moment? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by lemmyingly@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I'm looking for a new instance since lemm.ee is closing by the end of the month. What's a good instance to be on these days?

I'm looking for a instance with the fewest trolls, bots, and anyone that likes to take things to the extremes.

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[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just gonna pitch in here, but I'm no expert. I was reading people's reactions when that TLD was introduced, and they raised concerns over the possibility that a bad actor could spoof an address that actually downloads a .zip file to your device when you click the link, even though you may assume it's an address to a page. No idea what a hypothetical virus could do from a compressed environment, but thats what I remember reading.

Sorry to any experts if I'm muddying the waters with a dumb take!

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wikipedia also offers some (limited) information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.zip_(top-level_domain)

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's the exact reason why I dislike the .zip TLD, and the same goes for .mov. The TLDs can be easily abused to look like something they're not to trick people into visiting their website that downloads something malicious.