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

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Post by Kerrick »

camdenlock wrote: post #122
gnarbarian wrote: post #112

This is a great idea and I absolutely love it. The only thing I don't like is the branding. It seems to have some political undertones to it. I think combining this with a product like crypt pad is a great start towards creating a more independent Google workspace competitor. (and I'm flagged lol, way to prove my point)

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I hadn't heard of Transhumansim before so I looked it up. Wikipedia says:

> Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition.

Is that the word you meant to use? It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of your list/comment.

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

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Post by drdec »

toephu2 wrote: post #162

Anyone remember hey.com from a couple of years ago? Offered a chance to get a email at a 3-letter domain dot com....yeah and how many people are still using their hey.com email today? This is also similar to about.me links people were posting from a couple of years ago.

hey.com is $99/yr, this is $20/yr

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

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Post by Kerrick »

gnarbarian wrote: post #160
climb_stealth wrote: post #155

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Interesting, thanks for clarifying! Looks like I live in an environment where this is not a thing. Or I'm not aware of it. I'm also not in the USfor what it's worth.

You don't notice it because as soon as somebody steps out of line they are erased. my root comment has been flagged and nobody else will even see it.

For what it's worth, I can see it and it's been over 11 hours.

I find it really interesting what people consider political/apolitical these days, even things that weren't before. If somebody says they like to drink orange juice, that's currently an apolitical statement. If somebody else comes out and says that drinking orange juice is a bad thing to do, and gives a political reason for it, the first person suddenly "becomes political" by virtue of enjoying orange juice and talking about it, even though that wasn't political before. Why should the opinions of dissenters have the power to turn someone's otherwise apolitical statement political?

(Now compare that allegory to somebody who said "Since this is the internet and you cannot see me, please know that I'm a he/him" on a BBS in 1985. That was an apolitical statement. But now, saying it on your social media in 2022 it's political? How come?)

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

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Post by avx56 »

gglitch wrote: post #324
noduerme wrote: post #21

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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…

Bummer that .nil and .null are not available.

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

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Post by hot_gril »

627467 wrote: post #43
hot_gril wrote: post #39

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I get it, but $20 still seems rather high for that. Anyway, it's a cool website.

Interesting... I share that feeling, yet, if they actually positioned this as: "Pay 20usd/y for your social account in our mastodon instance and get free subdomain, webpage and email forwarding" I would find this totally acceptable, considering the potential costs of actually running a mastodon instance.

There are plenty of free-to-use Mastodon instances. They claim theirs is nicer, but it's hard to tell upfront, so it makes sense to me that they'd focus on the whole personal homepage aspect.

If I liked the omg.lol domain name a ton, I'd pay for this.

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

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Post by alberth »

fmisle wrote: post #311
zhynn wrote: post #305

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I love the service, I hate the name. It's got too much cute/whimsy for my taste, and it just makes me feel like the "hello fellow teenagers" guy. If they had the same everything but it was a "short and easy to spell/pronounce" domain service, I would 100% go for it. It doesn't have to be entirely boring, but less... cute. Also I think that meme language has a high risk of drifting into the cringe zone, and then that…

You can use your own domain, you're not tied to omg.lol

Where does it talk about using your own domain?

https://home.omg.lol/info

I can't find it in the Help docs.

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

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Post by throw-7462637 »

patates wrote: post #132
bobsmooth wrote: post #127

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The example profile includes pronouns.

I'm so tired of the constant battle to make very simple, innocent ideas political. Sooo f*ing tired.

> I'm so tired of the constant battle to make very simple, innocent ideas political.

You may be tired, and I may get downvoted, but this is oversimplifying the problem so much that the message itself seems political. First, identifying pronouns is not really opt-in. There is significant peer pressure, and once you're the lone holdout, it's very hard to keep yourself pronoun-less without becoming a social outcast and targeted as a bigot.

I am 100% behind equal rights for trans people, and will call anyone by their preferred pronoun (he or she, on the fence on they, and would probably not go into the neo-pronouns). That said, my wish is that the default mode to address someone is based on observed external sex characteristics, and where people whose external sex characteristics match their traditional pronouns do not communicate their pronouns. My reasons are that at a young age, kids are extremely easy to influence, and I have a strong feeling that many kids identify as another sex to mask other underlying issues. For similar contrarian perspective see the book Irreversible Damage and also Blair White's youtube channel.

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

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Post by gnarbarian »

Kerrick wrote: post #333
gnarbarian wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't notice it because as soon as somebody steps out of line they are erased. my root comment has been flagged and nobody else will even see it.

For what it's worth, I can see it and it's been over 11 hours. I find it really interesting what people consider political/apolitical these days, even things that weren't before. If somebody says they like to drink orange juice, that's currently an apolitical statement. If somebody else comes out and says that drinking orange juice is a bad thing to do, and gives a political reason for it, the first person suddenly "…

it was unflagged sometime last night.

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

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Post by dexterdog »

thepangolino wrote: post #180
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.

The thing with a domain registration is that you know if you pay for ten years in advance, you WILL have it for ten years. With most SaaS, you have absolutely no guarantee this is going to be the case.

You will have it for 10 years unless they decide to take it from you. That doesn't happen often, but it certainly can.
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