1. Dev mode
I wanted to be able to iterate on my early lexicons, and I didn’t know how that would impact other lexicons in lexicon.community. TBF I didn’t do much research into it either, but I figured it would be much easier to push random changes to my own system than it would be to rely on those changes being pushed to a repo that I don’t control.
2. Data ownership
I have a concept of ingesting a lot of early data that will be owned by the gamesgamesgamesgames.games repo. Think retro and indie games that don’t have a presence on ATProto, or whose creators no longer exist. These data for these games still deserve to exist in this universe, so they would be stored in the gamesgamesgamesgames.games repo, and available for the owners to claim and migrate to their own repo at a later time if they so choose.
3. It’s funny
When we were first workshopping the idea of the lexicon, @knowtheory.net posted a video where they loaded up Namecheap and just kept adding games to the domain until they found one that was available. I laughed really hard at that video and after noodling on it for not nearly as long as I probably should have, I bought the domain. Now it makes me giggle every time I look at it, and shouldn’t we all do things that bring us little joys?