This is a very good and fair point. I did consider this and was beginning to actively investigate something like this already, specifically lemmy.zip. I have been pondering a move to something more appropriate for awhile now. Unfortunately the Mali situation is forcing my hand to act more quickly, and I wanted to pick an instance that has a known track record. The World admins have successfully run both lemmy.world as well as their mastodon instances. I do not know much about the gaming-centric instances and their admins enough to jump in blindly at this time. If I had more time to develop those connections with them, I would have done so (and was planning to do so).

I do think that something like a gaming-centric instance is the way forward long-term and supports the Fediverse's values and it will be something I deeply consider when evaluating a potential future migration due to future circumstances or for something like a PS6 community establishment. If there were ever a way to more easily migrate communities, I will also consider this down the line.

I second this. Lemmy.zip seems like the logical choice here.

It will take a while to get away from the centralized world view of Reddit. To me, instances are like countries with their own constitution (rules) and police (mods). This means that two communities in different instances may seem the same, but they are not, because they have to follow the rules and culture of their instance.

Just like a PS5 club in Germany will not be the same as the PS5 club in the US because they will be culturally different. I think it will take some time for the Fediverse to think this way.

Yo what! :O

That's awesome!

You can also go to: https://mlmym.org/ to get the same old-reddit-style UI (using any lemmy or kbin host). I have no idea which one is preferable at this point, or if they even both point to the same thing anyway.

It's not just a matter of convenience, with new TLDs, people have less of an innate bias towards them and it makes it easier to establish a certain identity.

I'll be honest, I would never buy something from a .biz TLD. I don't know why, it just feels sketchy and out of date to me.

I'm with you in principle. But realistically, scalper-driven scarcity is a big problem in the big three TLDs, and nearly all the new generic TLDs have at least one of price, governance, or length problems that make them unappealing. Under the circumstances, I can't exactly fault people for choosing regional TLDs.

I had no idea that was what that TLD meant. TIL, thank you!

I considered this, but I do not have the resources to run my own instance. There are some gaming focused instances that are popping up, but for now the most established gaming communities are on lemmy.world. Plus, I dont know much about those instance admins to trust blindly diving in with them. I am very happy with the lemmy.world admins and think they are doing a great job. They also have a successful track record with their mastodon instance, sot I have confidence in them longer term.

I will keep this in mind for a future migration to something like PS6 (or if some other catastrophe comes along lol).

Isn't any .id at the same risk level of Indonesia taking back their domains like Mali did? Unless the server is actually located in Indonesia of course.