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the ! is the prefix to make an autolink on lemmy

think r/ on reddit, or # on mastodon (sort of)

It’s a grand idea to make an index, not only for better exposure, but I bet it also makes it easier for FNIC communities to handle potential problems in unity - if they want to.

yeah, there is also a matrix space where i’m doing anything i can democratically as well

I apologize for making assumptions. It is most definitely a good idea to not have the whole of Lemmies Imaginary communities depend on a single persons whims

don’t apologise! (i did steal their naming convention as well)

Though I’ve personally never had any beef with INE, we often see how bad such communities can end up.

neither did i; but better safe than sorry and all that (also i just made !imaginarytrains@lemm.ee because nobody else would, and it’s just sort of snowballed from there - i didn’t know if people would have beef with me, so i don’t want to dictate what happens everywhere)

thank you, but they’re very much unofficial by design (i’m not associated with the reddit ine, and i get the impression they’ve no interest in lemmy):

i think most of the imaginary network on reddit was the same [group of] mod[s] - i’m deliberately not doing that, and letting each lemmysphere do their own thing (hence the “federated”). this is a descriptive not prescriptive group, and this is mostly for easy discovery for people who are interested

copying in @ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org - you may be interested

personally i think that’s not a great answer

So, there is a mixed bag of thought on this that I read up on before creating the domain, but tl;dr - .zip is a valid TLD and will be recognised by all browsers etc as such. There are lots of new TLDs being created and they’ll be in the same boat.

yes, it is. .scr is also a valid executable that windows pcs will run, but i wouldn’t go about distributing programmes as such

.zip domains also come with higher levels of mandatory security and require an SSL certificate to display a webpage, which is another layer of security.

almost all websites do that now, but man-in-the-middle attacks aren’t really the issue with .zip domains

On the flip side, yes someone will probably try to fake a zip file with it and send the link around, but (and people are free to disagree with me here!) this is basic Internet security and you shouldn’t be clicking links to places you weren’t expecting.

this issue isn’t clicking links to places you weren’t expecting, but clicking a link to a place you were expecting. if i send you an email saying “i sent you the invoice.zip you asked me to”; then you’d be expecting that link to open the invoice zip file

especially on lemmy, as links often follow the format “https:⧸⧸domain.com⧸c⧸topic＠differentdomain.com”

Federation won’t be affected by anything and we’d need to be manually defederated like normal.

this is true (although anyone that has ||.zip^ blocked won’t see images hosted on lemmy.zip)

People/companies may decide to block .zip domains but that is a knee-jerk reaction.

i think it’s a necessary reaction. i’ve blocked .zip on both my parents’ computers (and my own, but i at least know how to disable it for specific sites). now admittedly they’re unlikely to be using lemmy^[1], but you get the picture

Bad actors will exist (and have existed before)

yes. but giving them more attack vectors isn’t the best idea

and with the way TLDs are heading before long you’ll probably be able to generate anything as a TLD, after all they’re just name friendly pointers to an IP address.

this may be true, but A) we’re not there yet, and B) that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing (or relevant)

In summary, it’s not caused us any issues yet, I dont forsee it causing us any issues, but if it did, then we’ll cross that bridge when we get there!

this is not the best attitude, as (as @quortez says), lemmy doesn’t currently allow migration or re-federation

points 3 & 8 are the most pertinent.

(sorry it’s long, but i might link to this in future so i wanted it somewhat comprehensive)

well that’s better than i expected^[1]. thank you for answering!

just out of interest db0, did this thread in any way change your opinion on webp?^[1] i’m just constructing a pet theory on internet discussions

(sorry to necro an old thread, and i’m sure you have other things on your plate right now; i’m just interested)

(also completely off-topic; i’m surprised your blog still has the wordpress favicon. i would have thought you of all people would have changed that)

i care about fake internet points because i want to share things people like. if they don’t like it, i’ll enjoy it myself, but i won’t bother sharing it

interesting, i’ll join

instance agnostic link: !show_lemmy@lemmy.ml

no worries, here’s the actual documentation. apparently there’s a third syntax that i never use as well

lemmy supports two footnote formats

the basic type like so:

comment body here[^1]

[^1]: and the footnote at the very bottom of the comment

or the easy to write type

comment body here^[and the inline footnote]

(note the different locations for the caret)

keep in mind that they don’t work on most apps, and some frontends

i know. like i said, i don’t believe it

^{i was just trying to be funny : (}

ah, but^[1] if you donate a kidney you go to the top of the queue

you’re losing one when you don’t need one, and receiving one when you do

insurance salesman here^[2], just in case that might have gibt unnoticed

i mean, i don’t personally agree with it, but i can empathise that that demographic is overrepresented on the internet, so if their goal is to create an instance (like, say, hexbear before they federated) where they’re curating a specific experience, it’s understandable

i’d be interested to know what instance it is though

i can understand where they’re coming from

if your instance was called lemmy.freds.com, and your goal was to create an instance purely for people called fred to use; it would be understandable to remove people who claimed to be called fred, and then it turns out they actually aren’t

now i don’t know what instance this is, but say it’s lemmy.dbzer0.com - if a user is going around decrying piracy, or reporting copyright infringement on lemmy to authorities; i think it would be reasonable to remove them

this looks pretty cool actually, i hadn’t heard of this

also; lemmysphere instance agnostic link: !retrodeck@lemmy.zip

actually i’m also going to reply to you here just to check my message went through, as i’m not sure if lemmy -> kbin messages work