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  • The TLD TL;DR is basically that domains don’t come out of nowhere. Just like how you need a lemmy.zip domain to be able to have the subdomains next.lemmy.zip or old.lemmy.zip, in order to have the domain lemmy.zip you must first have someone to run the .zip top-level domain (in this case, Google)

    Like Forester mentioned in the other comment, you can have any combination of letters you want as a TLD, you just have to set up and manage all the infra for it (or find somebody else to do it for you)







  • WeirdAlex03@lemmy.ziptotumblr@lemmy.worldUndiscovered Emotions
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    4 months ago

    With the caveats that (a) I strongly disagree with their tone/framing and (b) I’m aro/ace with absolutely no qualifications to stand behind on the matter, I honestly actually kinda agree with that idea

    The way I see it, the existence of trans/nonbinary and gender non-conforming people create a bit of a gray area that I don’t think the contemporary definitions of straight/gay are equipped to handle

    If you’re a man, you’re straight if you’re attracted to women. But what about a trans woman? Does it make a difference if she’s had bottom surgery? What about an enby who presents fem? What about a femboy who presents more fem than even some cis women you’ve seen, but still fully identifies as male? What about the opposite, a cis woman who presents strongly masc? At what point does still/not being attracted go from straight to bi? (Again, I’ve never experienced attraction to anyone regardless of anything, maybe there are actually very obvious answers to these questions, i genuinely don’t know. If you think you do know, please share! I’d love to learn more and gain a better perspective on this)

    Assuming I’m right the answers to the above questions aren’t very clear, I think it’s realistic to say everyone is at least a little bi. But, it’s not realistic to say everyone should identify as bi. Really anything greater than, say, a 90:10% ratio is enough to still be considered straight/gay for all intents and purposes, at most maybe with a little asterisk. (Although tbh I think we could just do away with gay/straight entirely and just do relative attraction to masculine-/feminine-presentation, from neither to either, but that’s probably less realistic in practice)









  • The three -verse terms I’ve heard in use are:

    • Fediverse: All the (ActivityPub-based) federated services with at least some degree of interoperability between each other
    • Threadiverse: Subset of fediverse focused on threads-based discussion, like link aggregation/forums-style (as opposed to i.e. microblogging)
    • Lemmyverse: Subset of threadiverse specifically running Lemmy (as opposed to i.e. Kbin)