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 @[email protected] for transfering me the new community!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i personally would be reticent to move anything to lemmy.zip, given the issues with .zip domains. especially on lemmy, with the @'s in the urls

but i don't have a ps5, so i don't have a horse in this race

[–] JackbyDev 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I agree. I'm really shocked zip even became a TLD. It's a phishers dream come true pretty much.

Hello Zeus, I've attached the invoice here, please click to open it. invoice.zip

And for the click conscious,

Recently .zip became a publicly available top-level domain. Please consider contacting ICANN who coordinates all domains on the Internet, or Google which is the sponsor and registry for .zip and voice your opinion on the gTLD. Hopefully with enough pushback they will prioritize our collective good above other factors and shut down the gTLD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's a good point, i hasn't considered writing to icann (not that i have a very high opinion of them these days). i don't suppose there's a template letter anywhere to save me writing one?

also by the way, i love your netscape avatar

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried following the link but the process was confusing enough that I gave up lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what link? am i going mad?

[–] JackbyDev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah at invoice.zip

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

ah sorry, markdown didn't auto-link it so i completely forgot that it could be a link...

i've just submitted something to icann, i don't think it's worth it with google