This is due to wanting to separate the lemmy flagship instance from the onboarding site.

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      Still a good thing. Now people can link to the join site and then be redirected to this or any other instance!

      I do really like how lemmy.ml rolls off the tongue though, it definitely grew on me. Not sure if I’d ever want to change that just because of some spam filters tbh.

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        Same, its short and I’m used to it now… the only things it’d be worth to change to would be like .org or .com, and those are owned or incredibly expensive.

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          Honestly, blocking TLDs is a really dumb way of spam filtering. Pretty much all the spam/scam sites I’ve seen are on paid TLDs anyway.

          Also, fuck domain flipping. I hate it when people try to sell domains at ludicrous prices. It only harms the internet as a whole and accomplishes nothing of value.

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            fuck domain flipping.

            i accidentally typed .com instead of .org for a site a few days ago and the domain name was being sat on… with a purchase price of $15,000!!! like wth

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              That’s someones rent for a year in some places. Truly outrageous.

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          i keep wondering- is ml for mainland, marxism-leninism, or something else?