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…
> Edit 2: The price is even the same! $19.95 vs $20
It's more than that, it's the entire theme. It screams "you're not welcome here." It's the left wing equivalent of putting up a bunch of burning crosses and pretending they don't mean anything. I know exactly how fairly I would be treated in that community and it looks like this: (the flagged and dead comment below this) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271510
It screams "everyone is welcome here."
"...as long as you agree with us about everything"
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…
I generally agree, but Mastodon is getting a lot of dev attention right now due to the Twitter problems, and while FOSS tends to improve slower and more incrementally, it also tends to only improve (as opposed to user-hostile pivots and so forth). For this use case, I'd rather use a clunky service that'll be around for the rest of my life than a slick one that might get bought by Elon Jr or whoever.
why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
I can see a lot of potential here as an alternative for people like me who don't have or want social media accounts. Sometimes I do want to share a profile with people without linking to my business website. But managing a separate domain / server / registration / email / etc. for that purpose hasn't seemed worth it. $20 a year is pretty reasonable. I think the one thing that would stop me from taking up on a service…
Actually pretty neat, but it would be substantially nicer with a lifetime account option, even if it was expensive. Having to renew is inconvenient, and makes it possible to lose your name.
Looks like lifetime memberships (mentioned in sibling comments) are a special offering.
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.
This assumes "I" had interest in Twitter at some point.
"says something about you" is a warning shot for a potential shaming campaign. The expected reaction is for the warned party to backpedal to avoid having their defects loudly discussed. You can see it play out in other responses, wherein terms like "decent people" and "old, dead narrative" are deployed. In other words, trouble in the same sense that those subjected to "microaggressions" have trouble.
What you are doing is interpreting everything as you like, not as it is meant. You paint yourself as the victim when this all started with your baseless accusations. If you don't like people reacting to your accusations, you should not use a public forum.
This looks like fun, reminds me of SDF but with an ability to provide more services due to the annual fee. edit: now that I revisit it, SDF does appear to provide more services, though probably with less commitment to reliability than omg.lol
Ahh sdf. I think I still log in occasionally even. Never did anything useful.
I set up an account and made a small donation for the 'verified' account thing.
I can use my sdf email address for email newsletters and such. I also log in (as another poster mentioned) and use the text mode browser for checking on Web sites from outside my local and national network.
Finally the system is a nice example of netbsd in action.
I have not joined in any of the forums &c yet. I might play with gopher and gemini for lutz