Sorry, why would I pay 20/year bucks for this when I have my own website/infra?
If I have to spend even one hour per year maintaining my own, this service is cheaper.
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a lawyer so I might be reading this wrong - but to me this says "We might sell the company to someone else, and they in turn might sell it to anyone", and that's a bit scarier.
You can't prevent that, not really. That "section 6.3" applies to every company, but these ToS are a bit more upfront about it.
> You can't prevent that, not really.
Couldn't you simply codify in the ToS that PII or even most/all historical metadata would be scrubbed upon the sale of the company? IANAL, but I would assume that a company could commit themselves in the user agreement in such a way that it guarantees some protection against this kind of concern.
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a lawyer so I might be reading this wrong - but to me this says "We might sell the company to someone else, and they in turn might sell it to anyone", and that's a bit scarier.
You can't prevent that, not really. That "section 6.3" applies to every company, but these ToS are a bit more upfront about it.
You can't prevent it, but you can make it a breach of contract.
(Where the new buyer would breach the contract if passing data on.)
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a lawyer so I might be reading this wrong - but to me this says "We might sell the company to someone else, and they in turn might sell it to anyone", and that's a bit scarier.
You can't prevent that, not really. That "section 6.3" applies to every company, but these ToS are a bit more upfront about it.
Is forced selling a thing for sole proprietorships? Is including data in a sale forced? You can prevent that if you want two ways:
1) Don't sell the company 2) Sell the company sans data (destroy it first)
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#325I just joined after reading the post. This wasn't the first time I've heard of Omg.lol but I wasn't entirely convinced earlier. For a long while, I've felt kinda lonely online as all of the communities and little corners online I've been part off have slowly died. I guess I've sort of been digitally homeless. I really enjoy the latest trends when it comes to indieweb and digital gardens, people creating their own spa…
I really enjoy the latest trends when it comes to indieweb and digital gardens, people creating their own space instead of living on closed platforms
The way I see the current day situation, re: Elon Musk's freedom of speech contingency tree -- If X/Twitter and other social media prospers, it's good for him and he wins. If those die and people rediscover, "people creating their own space instead of living on closed platforms," he wins as well.
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#326I've been using Omg.lol for around a year now (Cian.lol) and am really enjoying it. It's just so simple - it feels like travelling back in time to when we wrote blog posts and made websites to share with our friends, not to Create Content.
How did you get cian.lol? Why isn't it cian.omg.lol?
You can register domains yourself and set them up, under "Switchboard" --> "External Domain Routes"
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#327I'm holding out for omg.lawl
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't prevent that, not really. That "section 6.3" applies to every company, but these ToS are a bit more upfront about it.
Is forced selling a thing for sole proprietorships? Is including data in a sale forced? You can prevent that if you want two ways: 1) Don't sell the company 2) Sell the company sans data (destroy it first)
So your "solution" is 1) never change interests, 2) never have health problems, 3) never retire, 4) well live forever basically?
And no one is going to buy a company stripped of all customer data.
This is just not realistic. Any company or website that lives long enough will change hands eventually, whether it's "selling" or handing it to your first-born son, or whatever, for any number of reasons, and when that happens you lose control. The best you can do is hand it over to someone you trust (if that's possible), but nothing is fool-proof.
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#329Opened the front page of the "community of the nicest, most interesting people". Here's what I found, omitting some jokes, "dear diary", etc (profanity omitted, light rephrasing to keep it short): AI is taking our jobs Trump is a liar MAGA republicans are plotting against democracy and Trump is Putin's puppet Trump is bad AOC is cool, she's showing that evil GOP Twitter is dying Christians are hateful bigots Republic…
Anyone can look at the live feed here and see that this is made up: https://social.lol/public/local I had to scroll through over 24 hours of posts before hitting anything political, an article about abortion in Texas. Definitely not the majority of the content and it took way more scrolling than a couple of screens. I still haven't seen anything else on your list yet.
I just went to https://social.lol/
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't prevent that, not really. That "section 6.3" applies to every company, but these ToS are a bit more upfront about it.
> You can't prevent that, not really. Couldn't you simply codify in the ToS that PII or even most/all historical metadata would be scrubbed upon the sale of the company? IANAL, but I would assume that a company could commit themselves in the user agreement in such a way that it guarantees some protection against this kind of concern.
You can always change the terms of service; no one would really notice a detail like this.
And things like email addresses are "PII", and maybe some more things that are required to actually run this business. So "scrub all PII" isn't really a very feasible thing to do in the first place.