Unfortunately the obvious ones are already taken (lemmy.social, lemmy.org) or incredibly expensive (lemmy.com). Do you have any other ideas for a good domain? Or alternatively, we could just go with lemmy.ml.

    • Maya
      5·
      5 years ago

      I will personally pay for the domain if it means the email notifications have a chance of not going straight to spam

      • nutomicOPA
        3·
        5 years ago

        Are you sure that its because of the tld? I thought its because of the VPS, cause on peertube.social it works perfectly fine.

          • DessalinesA
            3·
            5 years ago

            Yup this one is stumping us. I tried to get more info from the logs and vps host, but it’s not telling us anything other than a rejected message.

        • Maya
          4·
          5 years ago

          oh I have no idea, someone else was suggesting that might be why. I have a pleb gmail and none of my manual interventions have been able to get it to hit my inbox.

            • Maya
              2·
              5 years ago

              you would think, yes. but I did that, and it still hits spam.

              The only thing I can think other than the TLD is that spam detection is often predicated on open rates, so maybe it’d help to make the default option a daily digest rather than individual emails.

    • Maya
      3·
      5 years ago

      I do also love domain hacks but .my is Malaysia and I think they may enforce community standards in ways that might not go well.

      • k_o_t
        2·
        5 years ago

        what do you mean specifically?

        most domains that are country specific are almost never used for their “intended” purpose, e.g. .ai, .io, .as, .gg etc

  • buster_blue
    5·
    5 years ago

    I’m a fan of the .xyz domain. It’s memorable and the implication of finality given by it is somewhat fitting for a link aggregator website like Lemmy.

    • nutomicOPA
      5·
      5 years ago

      .exchange sound too much like finances imo, .earth is a good idea though.

  • wraptile
    72·
    5 years ago

    Maybe it would be a good time to consider rebranding? The current name has zero connection to what the actual platform is.

    The github repo on naming indicates:

    lemmy github

    None of these points are related to what actually lemmy is. It’s not a pun, not a play on words and has no connection to platform itself — perfect recipe for a meaningful rebrand.

    • k_o_t
      10·
      5 years ago

      that’s how… …names work, most of the time they have no meaning whatsoever… in case of Lemmy, Lemmy sounds pretty good imo

      anyway, what do you think could be a better name?

      • wraptile
        2·
        5 years ago

        I’d disagree with you here. Most names have meaning. Further there’s a lot of marketing value in a name and especially negative value in a bad name (trademarks, miss-associations, search engines etc.). For example in the latest news Matrix is renaming their chat clients (Riot etc.) I think name is especially relevant for a social network project such as lemmy.

        I don’t have any great suggestions yet but I’ll come back to this thread if something pops into mind.

        • Maya
          7·
          5 years ago

          Lots of names have meaning but orthogonal to what they signify. Women named Crystal are not particularly differently structured on the molecular level. The SEO value is significant, that’s true–but if there’s no other Lemmy software, it’s not too bad.

          • wraptile
            2·
            5 years ago

            Babies don’t have any personalities so meaningful naming is really impossible. However adult nicknames do have meaning and someone who’s nickname is Big Cheese definitely has indication of their personality and them as a being.

            • Maya
              2·
              5 years ago

              Okay, sure. But Googol -> Google isn’t, like, Surchit.

        • k_o_t
          3·
          5 years ago

          Most names have meaning.

          Could you provide some examples (genuinely asking)? I kind of always thought that most names either didn’t have meaning at all, or they have attained meaning by doing something very notable, with which they’ve become associated, or meaning if they’re named after some object/notion that represents things in real world

          Although I’m sure it varies from language to language…

          • wraptile
            2·
            5 years ago

            For humans you can just google name meanings — there’s a lot of research in that regard mostly because by extreme popularity of baby name books. For example my name is Bernard and that means “brave as a bear” (literal bear’s heart) and Dexter just means right handed in latin (dexi).

            Here in Thailand naming is particularly interesting. Most people get two names, one traditional Thai name that means so animal/flower inspired name or abstract meaning, but that’s not the name they go by in public. Instead everyone gets a nickname that sometimes is as silly as “pizza” and by that instead which is such a fun system in my opinion!

            As for projects most projects have apt name too, for example reddit is a play on words for “read it” as in “I’ve read it on reddit”. Slashdot is a play on unix directories, google is play on number googol as to imply they have that many search results.

            • k_o_t
              2·
              5 years ago

              Here in Thailand naming is particularly interesting. Most people get two names, one traditional Thai name that means so animal/flower inspired name or abstract meaning, but that’s not the name they go by in public. Instead everyone gets a nickname that sometimes is as silly as “pizza” and by that instead which is such a fun system in my opinion!

              lol, that’s bizarrely cool :)

              and yes, ok, some names clearly do have meanings/represented by things in the real world, but I still think that a Lemmy is an interesting and somewhat catchy name :)

  • Maya
    5·
    5 years ago

    lemmy.news sounds like hacker news
    lemmy.pub alludes to activity pub
    lemmy.link works as … “it’s a link aggregator”

    then there’s lemmy.zone, lemmy.town, lemmy.land, lemmy.club which are varying degrees of silly but would be good if y’all eventually foresee needing to block signups on the first flagship