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Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
>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. I get that is quite a UX/UI problem. However, given what is now known about FAANG and big tech corp, I would rather have my data unreliable…
What recent information about FAANG (and presumably Twitter) pushed you over the edge? Genuine question in case it comes across sharp, for all those except Netflix I haven't respected their business practices or ethics for at least a decade.
The UI/UX problems of Mastodon really are due to the federation model, they aren't inevitable when moving away from a corporate walled garden. Bit of a dead horse on HN, but RSS really does most of what Mastodon does better, throw in WebMentions and you have all the social features too. To the original thread here, it's be very cool to see indieweb support on omg.lol since everyone gets a subdomain and webpage already!
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#263Does omg.lol support any indieweb features like webmentions?
Would be a great fit since every user already gets a (sub)domain and homepage!
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#264How do these email addresses do against spam filters? In my experience trying to send an email from any domain on a non-standard TLD (regardless of properly configured SPF and DKIM) gets heavily penalized and almost always ends up going straight to the recipient's junk mail folder.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Yeah but they probably have more than 6 users? This is cool and shit, but they're profiting and I guess I'm fine with that.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's fascinating. My experience is exactly the opposite - Proton is slow and awful, and Fastmail is fast and clean.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#267Felt like making an account here just to say how much I've been enjoying this service.
I got a lifetime license awhile back and love how it just keeps giving. The shortened email is cool enough, but all the extra goodies are just really tasty icing on the cake. The simple status social media site is fun because it's so low friction, you don't worry about anything other than just creating a stream of little updates.
I'd love to see this entire concept become the new way we web. Like instead of giant conglomerate companies trying to do everything, we have a bunch of smaller little services that interact with each other (a la fediverse or something similar) and they occasionally add a new little set of tools. Feels very "old-web" like. Like a modern BBS.
Great work so far Adam! Keep it up :) Much love from spencer.omg.lol
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Server black listing can be copied so servers can get blocked before they are even listed. If an admin doesn’t like you and you get banned then you have to rebuild your social circle. You could host your own but really who wants to do that?
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#269their status page is https://broke.lol/ . This is great.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#270Am I dreaming? There seems to be something weird about this post and its comments.
The service itself is interesting. The branding…is not to my taste.
I think that some people may be able to get behind the service by virtue of its usefulness alone, and either are unbothered by the branding or are even attracted to it.
And then there are some people who are totally put off by the branding for various reasons, be it because they perceive certain political/ideological undertones behind it or just think that it’s immature and are even aghast that other HN users (who are predominantly middle-aged men, presumably) find it appealing.
To criticize the branding, puts one’s self in a position where one can either make a statement that can either be perceived as “politically incorrect” or insensitive, or reconciliatory (“I understand why people like it, but it’s not for me, I should’ve kept my opinions to myself and let people have their fun.”)