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

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Post by rb666 »

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…

You're misunderstanding the concept of Mastodon.

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

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Post by nailer »

borski wrote: post #239
nailer wrote: post #222

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And Fastmail. Fastmail is to programmers what Superhuman is for salespeople.

What is so great about fastmail? I keep hearing people talk about it but haven’t “gotten it” yet.

I find latency on gmail (for work or otherwise) makes gmail unusable. I am more latency sensitive than most of my colleagues though.

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

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Post by justusthane »

borski wrote: post #239
nailer wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Fastmail. Fastmail is to programmers what Superhuman is for salespeople.

What is so great about fastmail? I keep hearing people talk about it but haven’t “gotten it” yet.

It's just really good at being an email provider. Reliable, privacy-respecting, good support, and with a webmail client to rival (or beat) Gmail.

Plus they frequently develop new useful features, like partnering with Bitwarden and 1Password to generate throwaway email address on the fly at your domain.

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

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Post by LibertyBeta »

rb666 wrote: post #240
borski wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is so great about fastmail? I keep hearing people talk about it but haven’t “gotten it” yet.

I have been a paying customer for years, and I don't expect to ever leave. My favorites are: - DNS capabilities - Friendly and fast customer support - Great, smooth, pretty UI on all platforms

See, I don't get this. Last time I tried fastmail I ended up on proton because it was just slightly... Kludgy. DNS was slow. Webmail was a mess. And the mobile client scene wasn't worth it.

That said, the billing side wasn't bad.

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

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Post by justusthane »

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?

I think Mozilla is trying to do this, although not super successfully.

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

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Post by ehnto »

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.

These are ongoing services so a once off payment doesn't make sense for the business. The alternatives are self-hosting and free services, self hosting is great. If you are using free services though, they could disappear too, and you have to question the business model of anyone givingyou something for nothing.

At least if you are paying for it you are entering into a contract of service from the provider which gives you a lot of legal recourse and leverage and also supports the business so that they do keep providing you the service.

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

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

devin wrote: post #38

I would kill to know how many people converted despite these comments.

I didn't, omg lol is really not my style. Besides that, I already have a fun domain name that I use as an email alias. I pay $10 a yearly and it gets a laugh every time I give it to someone.

Other than hosting a basic web page, the other features are not useful to me.

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

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Post by justusthane »

neoberg wrote: post #208
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.

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…

Not disagreeing with you that there is an amount of friction at the moment. However, just to provide some counterpoints:

> All clients are straight up bad but this is mostly personal opinion.

There are a _lot_ of new clients in active development right now. I'm on the private alpha of Ivory by Tapbots (who built the popular Tweetbot client), and it's quite good.

> 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.

Agreed that this is an issue, but there are ways around it. I'm a member of a coop-run instance, social.coop.

> 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.

Agreed, but most clients resolve this.

> it's imho impossible for it to go mainstream.

Strong disagree - I think it's already going mainstream, and lots of non-tech people are picking it up every day.

> 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.

Agreed, but this is resolved by just picking one of the big, popular instances. I was on universeodon.com first, and was immediately having "normal" conversations with "regular" people.

Again, your comment absolutely rightfully points out that there _is_ friction there. However, I don't think it's at all insurmountable, and I think it will continue to improve and gain traction.

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