Wow, since my post yesterday, lemmy.world has added 2000+ new users to cross the 30000 user mark! Just think, it was only at 20k three days ago. Crazy growth.
With that, lemmy.world is the clear second largest lemmy instance and has left the third largest instance beehaw.org’s 12k in the dust. It’s now within 6000 users to overtake the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (their registration is closed). Exciting to see this growth!
What are some of your favorite communities on lemmy.world so far?
To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
That's for http addresses, isn't it? The ending of a lemmy instance is likely completely different - as you don't find url domains ending in ".world" or ".social".
EDIT: I'm wrong!
DNS-Names are not bound/specific to a protocol/service type. Of course some might fit better for a serivce, e.g. the top level domain ".im" fits "Instant Messaging" (e.g xmpp, matrix ...) services well. But still you could host a Website (https-protocol) on the same address. The list of valid top level domains is not static. new TLDs are being approved constantly. This means e.g. ".world" is a valid Top Level Domain but not many/big services use it for now, so it is rather unknown.
It’s the same, those are just newer tlds
I'm really confused reading your comment. Are you saying that the top level domains of .world and .social cannot be used for "ordinary" websites?
I don't know!
The domain doesn't have anything to do with what is hosted behind it, generally speaking. Any normal website could use .world or .social if they wanted to but they're uncommon
About the only TLDs that still have an enforced meaning anymore are .gov and .mil.