It makes it very hard to share lemmy and get more friends involved when I can’t actually link the main instance :(

  • sibachian@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    it’s probably the .ml domain. they should change it. i wonder of they own lemmy.social? would be good since most of the fediverse uses .social as the primary domain :)

        • OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
          0·
          3 years ago

          It’s a technical thing that someone can probably explain in more detail, but once other instances start pointing toward your posts on lemmy.ml or whatever your domain is, then changing your domain later on will break that at minimum (there are probably worse consequences, but like I said I don’t know everything under the hood)

          • swodig
            1·
            3 years ago

            Couldn’t they keep lemmy.ml and redirect it to the new one? This way we can use the new one and nothing will break.

          • sibachian@lemmy.ml
            0·
            3 years ago

            so the choice is either break some older data, or be permanently at the disadvantage of a flagged url?

            • OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
              1·
              3 years ago

              Idk enough about DNS and reverse proxy but maybe you could set up an alternate domain that redirects to the same exact site?

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    3 years ago

    lemmy.ml faces a fair bit outside resistance (I still can’t access my account as emails have not worked for months), but that’s really where federation should come in. It doesn’t have to be lemmy.ml, and shouldn’t always default to lemmy.ml.

    • jackalope@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      Yeah but I also want to share specific communities. I’m in a bunch of coops and union focused groups on facebook so I’ve been trying to get people to join lemmy and contribute their links. People who run cooperative economy programs that might be interested in letting people know about grants and stuff, but I think they’re put off at least in part by the friction of linking them etc.