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

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Post by dpatterbee »

philliphaydon wrote: post #201
antipotoad wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The whole point of federated activitypub servers is the opposite of segregation - everyone gets to use whatever server they want and they can still interact with anyone else. Servers blacklisting each other (or defederating) is possible of course, but nothing's stopping you from just joining another server, and twitter at this point is just a large defederated mastodon instance anyway.

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Post by alexfoo »

soco wrote: post #210
benyafai wrote: post #193

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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?

The omg.lol domain was registered on 2019-03-13.

From then to now is 3 years 9 months and ~20 days.

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

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Post by KomoD »

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 would have no interest if it was "mastodon-centered"

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Post by stavros »

slg wrote: post #185
bmitc wrote: post #167

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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.

It is totally reasonable to charge a recurring fee for providing an ongoing service, but to be clear you are not buying a domain that needs registration. You are buying a subdomain of the domains that this company already owns. Some other sites give those away for free because there is no marginal cost per subdomain.

> You are buying a subdomain of the domains that this company already owns.

All domains are like that, though, even TLDs.

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Post by zupa-hu »

slg wrote: post #185
bmitc wrote: post #167

Earlier 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.

It is totally reasonable to charge a recurring fee for providing an ongoing service, but to be clear you are not buying a domain that needs registration. You are buying a subdomain of the domains that this company already owns. Some other sites give those away for free because there is no marginal cost per subdomain.

Which in the end is true for domains as well. Someone decides to sell subdomains of X, weather X is com or omg.lol.

Com could be free as well. The only real difference is choice.

Or to put it differently, you say it doesnt need registration. Well, it does. They require it. So what.

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