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Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by philliphaydon »

antipotoad wrote: post #194
philliphaydon wrote: post #189

Earlier 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.

It makes no difference if the person controlling it is a billionaire good guy or bad guy. The result is the same. If you go down the route of mastodon then all you’re doing is segregation.

In scenario A you pool people together into 1 big void and everyone gets angry and both sides consider each other wrong.

In scenario B you segregate people into groups of opinions where the moment your opinion differs you’re kicked from that group.

Either way we are long past the time when you could have an educated conversation and debate.

I have no desire to join a void with single opinions and nothing to discuss.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by Ferret7446 »

ekianjo wrote: post #187
Ferret7446 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary, it is solidly rooted in math. On average, and without other context, a random sample will be close to the middle. Given a random sample of any thing at an arbitrary point in time, on average it will be in the middle of its lifetime. Something that is X years old will on average, continue for X more years. Of course, additional information lets you refine that estimate considerably, but it is mathemat…

> On average, and without other context, a random sample will be close to the middle. The thing is, we typically have a lot of context for every technology we discuss, so bringing back this saying that reduces everything to one-dimension is just silly.

You typically don't, you just think you do much like how stock pickers think they know but end up failing to beat the market average. There's too many unknowns and variables to even come close to an educated guess.

If you are truly an expert, you have a fighting chance. As a human, that means you are limited to a tiny number of specific subject matters.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by mihaaly »

dcchambers wrote: post #73

I've been a happy omg.lol subscriber for years, originally as a fun little joke but it's actually pretty useful and I use my profile as my "link in bio" for twitter and other social sites. The founder, Adam, is a genuinely good dude. He just keeps adding more features and the service gets better and better.

This is around for years and the chewbacca.omg.lol and the lukeskywalker.omg.lol are still available to snatch?! Omg!

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by codetrotter »

lgeorget wrote: post #142
lucasyvas wrote: post #71

I 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…

> provides open-source alternatives to common cloud services

This includes, among other things, PeerTube.

PeerTube is a federated alternative to YouTube.

https://joinpeertube.org/

I love PeerTube. Been running an instance of it of my own for a few weeks.

I currently have only two videos on it so far.

The subject of the videos on my instance are computing and music.

My instance does not allow others to sign up, but I would like to invite other creators to host videos about computing and music on my instance. I tried to reach out to one person that was currently using YouTube and who was making videos about computing to ask them if they wanted to host their videos on my PeerTube instance instead. Didn’t hear back from that person yet.

I would like for about ten to one hundred people who have a history of creating videos about computing or music to join my instance. The goal being that we would be enough people on the instance so that every week there is 1 to 2 new videos posted, while still being few enough people so that we are not flooded with many videos, and while also maintaining a strict focus on videos whose topics are restricted to one or more of the following three:

- computing (by this I mean programming, software engineering, computer science and such)

- music (includes music videos for music created by the person, as well as videos about music theory and videos about music production)

- electronics (meaning things like microcontrollers, soldering, PCB design, etc)

Essentially, to create a small and focused community.

Still not sure how to actually get other people to join though. For now my strategy will be to continue making videos of my own, and occasionally reaching out to others to ask them personally if they want to join the instance when I see someone that makes content of a similar nature as the kind that I host on my instance.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by temporary22 »

beebmam wrote: post #154
blakewatson wrote: post #90

You get a surprising amount of functionality for $20. I just got an account and I've been poking around for about an hour. I'm seriously impressed. You get: - a webpage - DNS - email forwarding - a statuslog - url shortener - a pastebin - a weblog - an optional Mastodon account - optional IRC/Discord - and probably some more stuff I missed And all of this stuff is much more configurable than it would typically be on…

It's not $20. It's $20 per year . I know that might be semantic for some people, but for much of these services, I wouldn't want it going away after 1 year if I'm unable to pay that cost again. And for that reason, I think it's worth noting.

My domain is 26 per year. This is cheap af and I'm reconsidering ditching my domain in favour of this.

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Post by neoberg »

antipotoad wrote: post #194
philliphaydon wrote: post #189

Earlier 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.

Not parent commenter but; I personally don't have any interest in what you described. Especially when it's something like mastodon, which is inferior in almost every aspect.

- All clients are straight up bad but this is mostly personal opinion. - I don't want to maintain and pay for a personal instance - On public instances there is always the risk of the admins deciding not to run it anymore without notice. In that case you lose all your followers. - Due to how it's designed; some things are very inconvenient. For example; when I click a link to someone's profile on the internet, I can't see if I follow them or not unless they are on my server. Then I have to copy their url, go to my instance, search and follow. Too much friction for a simple and one of the most important actions of the platform. - With these inconveniences (that are not easy to solve without centralization), it's imho impossible for it to go mainstream. It requires a certain level of tech-saviness. Even the concept of "choosing an instance" is confusing for most people. I don't want to just follow or be followed by techbros and edgy artists. I like having normal converstaions with regular people.

I would be interested in an alternative to Twitter but in its current state, Mastodon isn't that.

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Post by jug »

pprotas wrote: post #110
627467 wrote: post #45

If 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)

I think you are overestimating how many people care about Mastodon

They have grown from 300K monthly active users to 2.5M in December. Nothing compared to social networks at large, crazy numbers compared to the omg.lol user base.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

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Post by soco »

benyafai wrote: post #193
soco wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then I'm confused, did it have a different name back then?
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