Am I dreaming? There seems to be something weird about this post and its comments.
It defo screams astro-turfing. This post is filled with sock puppets who think this weird service is worth $20 and are completely ignoring all the downsides.
Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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#192Anyone remember hey.com from a couple of years ago? Offered a chance to get a email at a 3-letter domain dot com....yeah and how many people are still using their hey.com email today? This is also similar to about.me links people were posting from a couple of years ago.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've been a happy omg.lol subscriber for years Interesting, how many years would you estimate it's been around? I see their Mastodon server is pretty new (since last July) and wayback doesn't have the homepage archived at all. Can't think of another way of checking.
The domain was registered in 2019 and work started later - as they say on their "About" page. So "subscriber for years" where years <= 2.
I can chime in here, service has been running for a little under 4 years. I have been subscribed for over 3.5 years.
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#194If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the audience. I sense the point of this funny domain is the community, and community is centered on mastodon instance which btw, is not cheap to run as soon as it grows beyond a few hundred people. (I'm including potential moderation costs)
If it was advertised as mastodon I would close the webpage. I have 0 interest in it and I don’t know anyone in my direct tech circle who is on it.
You really have no interest in the concept of a non-corporate / non–billionaire-controlled Twitter? Not trying to bait you, but genuinely curious on your stance.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Domain registration has to be renewed, either per year or per years if you buy a bunch of licenses up front. So what's the alternative to this then? A lot of domains can cost around $20 per year.
Creating a subdomain once you have the domain is free, probably for the domain omg.lol they're paying $20 / year.
omg.lol was probably a premium domain of some kind. Random three-letter .lols seem to go for about $150/yr (according to gandi).
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#196It's in fact a really nice service. I think addressing the portability issue with a bring-your own DNS might appease some people (and still bill $20, or even more). BUT, if I had a Product Owner hat on, this is not something I would prioritize as a one-man show.
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#197Gen Z is probably asking why there’s no .yolo domain suffix yet.
I thought YOLO was more of a millennial thing.
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#198I expected to hate this and walked away thinking it was a pretty ok idea. Good job! The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this? I'd love to see hosting offered for curated open source services that are interoperable. Sort of like all those WordPress hosts of yore (and today!). Edit: omg.lol, is it AOL?? :D Edit 2: The price is even the same! $1…
> The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this? It's a different but related concept: Framasoft in France ( https://framasoft.org/fr/ ). It's a non-profit that provides open-source alternatives to common cloud services. They also teach people how to install and configure these tools on their own server instead of relying on providers reselling th…
They also used to host quite a lot of stuff before they decided it went both beyond their means and contrary to their goals.
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#199I expected to hate this and walked away thinking it was a pretty ok idea. Good job! The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this? I'd love to see hosting offered for curated open source services that are interoperable. Sort of like all those WordPress hosts of yore (and today!). Edit: omg.lol, is it AOL?? :D Edit 2: The price is even the same! $1…
> The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this?
There is also https://librem.one services.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it was advertised as mastodon I would close the webpage. I have 0 interest in it and I don’t know anyone in my direct tech circle who is on it.
You really have no interest in the concept of a non-corporate / non–billionaire-controlled Twitter? Not trying to bait you, but genuinely curious on your stance.
I believe the issue for many people is not the "non-corporate / non-billionaire-control" part, and more the "twitter" part. It may sound weird to people who use twitter, but much of the world don't have the slightest interest in the concept.