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
inducted?
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)
although i have just set up a lemmy acct. for someone a similar age, and only slightly more tech-savvy ↩︎
interesting, i’ll join
instance agnostic link: !show_lemmy@lemmy.ml
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
Then I will include them on my watchlist and will try to post at least from time to time.
thank you, i do appreciate it
As I said in other comments, thanks to all of you who create and moderate communities. For now, I’m just trying to generate content, which I know is the easier part.
well i haven’t actually had to do much moderating yet — i’ve mostly been balancing seeding some content without spamming the local feed; as well as discussing them on matrix, and sometimes promoting them on threads like this when i remember
Note that I said: “you look a bit more organized than small subs”, and that’s not a very high bar, hehe :P.
oi! and i thought you were nice
More seriously, I thought you were related to reddit’s Imaginary Network, which is huge and with some big power-users.
nope, not at all. they’re just the only subs i still follow by rss, and no-one else was making them here so i took up that mantle. and now i have 7 imaginary communities… and there are at least 2 more that i want to exist, so i’m hoping someone makes them soon
thank you!
(also, i’m flattered that you think i look organised, i’m very new to this so i don’t feel organised at all)
a few others and i are trying to get some of the imaginary network off the ground - the ones i’m particularly fond of are imaginary trains and imaginary dieselpunk, but there’s a whole list in the sidebar
unfortunately a considerable chunk went down with lemmy.fmhy.ml, but i’m in contact with the guy behind them and he plans to reopen them soon
i love the banner image
well you’re in luck! i’m currently messaging some other imaginary community mods, so more communities will be coming soon
for some reason, lemmy automatically prefills with [!zeitgeist@lemmy.world](www.lemmy.world/c/zeitgeist) if you start typing an exclamation mark on desktop. even though [!zeitgeist@lemmy.world](/c/zeitgeist@lemmy.world) is better (and just !zeitgeist@lemmy.world works in most cases)
probably? i’m not the arbiter of imaginary communities…
but in seriousness: i doubt i’ll do them. i’m making these communities because nobody else was, and i want to see cool pictures, and i like trains & dieselpunk. i’m just getting the ball rolling. i will add it to my list of communtities to make if no-one does so first, but i’m afraid it’ll be pretty far down that list. i’ll create it though if you want to post some stuff
thank you!
heh, i don’t want to mod them either - i plan to hand them off to the first person that comes along. but i think people are more likely to add content to sublemmy that has content; so i’m “pump-priming” the sub by posting some pictures that i did post to reddit before, and some i found on tumblr
most of these are outside my wheelhouse, but i will do wastelands; and maybe portals & behemoths. aviation, landscapes, and starships already exist, and cyborgs might be an alternative to robotics. i’ll ping you when/if i make them though
keeping this comment as a todo list for myself. it anyone wants to create these for me though that would be great
not really. i got bored of waiting for them; that’s why i’m making them myself
there are a few of the more active ones in the sidebar, or you might find something by searching lemmyverse.net for imaginary. if you make one, tell me and I’ll put it in the sidebar
i’m currently starting up imaginarydieselpunk, then i might make one for steampunk. do you have any requests?
yeah, there is also a matrix space where i’m doing anything i can democratically as well
don’t apologise! (i did steal their naming convention as well)
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)