More cringy lore time!
Stormburg, also Stormboro or Stormborough, is the capital of the ice giant planet Moonlitter. It is an archology floating in the planet’s atmosphere. It is not open to the air like the cities on Welkinstead[1], since the atmosphere is not breathable. It is located in the eye of a perpetual cyclonic storm. No sunlight penetrates the deep clouds around it. The only natural light comes from the constant lightning from the surrounding storm clouds.
Why the capital was placed in such an inhospitable location has been lost to history. Unlike Welkinstead, Moonlitter itself has few exploitable resources, and the bulk of the population lives on the planet’s many moons. The location may have been chosen precisely because it did not favor any one moon, or perhaps to make life miserable for the politicians who have to live there.
Art and writeup by @early_riser@lemmy.world
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I think that’s true and is how it works with regards to hex and grad, however the problem with .ml specifically is that the developers themselves head it and does what they do as covered in the previous comment. This gives Lemmy, and potentially the wider Threadiverse, an image problem that’s very hard to shake when trying convince people to come over here. Especially the average user.
What’s worse, few instances defederate from them because of potential concerns of damaging the working relationship with said developers. Some smaller instances do, but they’re also not stressing the software like a large instance does like .world
A fair point I suppose.