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Why do a lot of fediverse instances put their software (i.e. Lemmy/Mastodon) in their name somehow? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something.

There's nothing wrong with doing that, obviously, but it's struck me as another interesting quirk of fediverse instances/sites. Generally as soon as you visit them you can tell by the site interface or an icon somewhere what software they're using.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Another thing is that ActivityPub uses the hostname as the unique identifier, so I don't think you can easily switch from Lemmy to KBin or something like that if you're trying to use the same hostname as before