send the money to lemmy devs instead of a domain.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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Don't give any money to domain squatters.
The idea there should be some definitive, canonical domain for the Fediverse is somewhat at odds with the core tenents of the Fediverse itself - decentralisation, and no single point of ownership or control. And on that basis, we absolutely should not care about a particular domain, or assign any level of 'specialness' to it.
I understand your worry - that some 'bad actor' could buy the domain and do something anti-Fediverse with it and mislead the public, but my response would be to simply not worry. The strength of the Fediverse is that we are diverse and unbothered by whatever nonsense some centralised platform is trying to pull. We don't have a profit motive. We don't care.
People who want to find the real Fediverse will absolutely still find us, all on their own, regardless of who owns some random domain :)
The .org seems to require a log in. I wonder what entity has these domains. I imagine the folks working to manifest the fediverse don't have the capacity to buy up all the possible domains.
It also doesn't even make sense to buy up all the possible domains. It would just be a waste of money, and surely someone could come up with a domain name that you didn't think of (fediverse-network.com).
Very true! The whole domain squatting thing is pretty bizarre to me.
How much is it?
Lol, that's insane. I hope everybody saves their money for better things.
Holy shit. Fuck that.
What a ridiculous price.
I'll give them $20 Final offer
You get free business cards with it. For 500k you get free business cards. Still got pay extra for the rest though what a rip off.
WTF is it cause it's a term that's trending?
If every Lemmy user donated $1...
You still wouldn't have enough, but you'd be close.
You have to fill out a form to inquire about price. So I don't know.
I don't think reddit would care enough to try and defend itself against lemmy. Lemmy isn't that much of a big threat for them.
fediverse.xyz is $299,888.00
Just donate to PeerTube
someone should start a fundraiser so we can buy it
I think there are better things to do with $500k than throw it all away for a useless domain name, like distribute it to the people who maintain fediverse software and host instances.
Nooo we can't do that because I don't 100% align with the beliefs of lemmys devs so I'd rather see the project go broke
You forgot the /s
Unironically the mindset of guys like cm002.
you'd probably be better off setting up your own domain server and trying to get that working