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why didn't lemmy community actors get put on a subdomain? (toast.ooo)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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always wondered this, but kept forgetting to post it

eg users would be on @[email protected] and a community would be on @[email protected] or something like that

then it would still follow the AP spec but still allow for identical identifiers (like a user account being @[email protected] and a community also being [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]))

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

TLS certs can have one level of wildcard (even let's encrypt supports this), and creating subdomains programmatically is not exactly black magic - the main blocker from the technical side is that the code to update the DNS is usually not portable between providers, so it's not adequate for a federated open source project.