Lost_My_Mind to No Stupid QuestionsEnglish • 16 days agoIf I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?message-square30fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down15 starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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minus-square@bitwabalink8•15 days ago.com, .net, .org, and .social are called Top Level Domains You can register a second level domain (e.g. “google”, "lemmy”, “cnn”) with a specific TLD, resulting in a domain name (e.g. “google.com”, “lemmy.social”, “cnn.com”) arrow-up18arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
.com, .net, .org, and .social are called Top Level Domains
You can register a
second level domain(e.g. “google”, "lemmy”, “cnn”) with a specific TLD, resulting in adomain name(e.g. “google.com”, “lemmy.social”, “cnn.com”)