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

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Post by blooalien »

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…

That's actually a shockingly decent list of provided features for $20 a year. A more than fair price, and worth every dime as long as the servers are at least semi-reliable. I pay $12 a year for a domain, and another $5 per month for a VPS to host services on that domain, and even that's totally worth it to me, so $20 a year for all that they're offering (even if it is only on a subdomain)? Quite good indeed…

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

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Post by JasonFruit »

veratwiger wrote: post #325
hardnose wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...as long as you agree with us about everything"

As long as you agree not to shit on other people's identities, which should be a given.

> agree not to shit on other people's identities

I believe you mean, "agree with me on gender and sexuality". When you take away the tendentious wording, it's a lot less clear that it "should be a given."

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

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Post by andrecarini »

andrecarini wrote: post #318
JonathonW wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can move between registrars, but the registrar's not the one that you're leasing the domain from; they're just a reseller. The entity that you're actually leasing the domain from is the registry operator-- such as Verisign for .com or PIR for .org. And, yes, it's still a lease relationship-- while there are some ICANN-mandated consumer protections around your "purchase" of a domain, if you stop paying your annual…

> Omg.lol is operating the same way Not entirely true; I'd argue it's closer to subleasing a part of the property they're currently leasing from an ICANN accredited registrar. > they've just cut out the middleman Quite the opposite! They've just introduced themselves as yet another middleman on top of the already existing middleman (there's still a value proposition to this, but it's not the same). TL;DR: subtenant r…

EDIT: typing mistake: replace ⊈ with ⊊ (proper subset)

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

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Post by throwmeback »

zhynn wrote: post #305
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…

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…

I'm sorry for the quality of this comment, but boo hoo.

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

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Post by nxrabl »

alberth wrote: post #350
vukky wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://home.omg.lol/info/switchboard , the "external domains" section

That section reads more like you can just have another domain redirect to omg.lol profile, as opposed to be served from that external domain. Am I reading that correctly? Meaning, your profile wouldn't be served from "example.com" but instead, "example.com" would simply do a browser redirect to "omg.lol/example"

No, that's not what those docs say you can do. It looks like you can either use a DNS A record to point "example.com" directly to omg.lol's IP address, or use a CNAME record to point "example.com" to whatever IP address "example.omg.lol" points to. In both of these cases, your browser's url bar would still say "example.com".

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

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Post by hanspeter »

avree wrote: post #300
Dwedit wrote: post #292

When you get an email address from someone, you need assurance that they'll be around in 5+ years. Hotmail and Gmail aren't going anywhere.

When Gmail launched, people were writing this exact same comment about how Yahoo and Hotmail aren't going anywhere.

Google was a $23 billion at the time they launched Gmail.

Not sure why an email service from Yahoo or Microsoft - which were not the primary focus of either company's business - would be more likely to persist.

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

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Post by spacebuffer »

codetrotter wrote: post #206
lgeorget wrote: post #142

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> The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this? It's a different but related concept: Framasoft in France ( https://framasoft.org/fr/ ). It's a non-profit that provides open-source alternatives to common cloud services. They also teach people how to install and configure these tools on their own server instead of relying on providers reselling th…

> provides open-source alternatives to common cloud services This includes, among other things, PeerTube. PeerTube is a federated alternative to YouTube. https://joinpeertube.org/ I love PeerTube. Been running an instance of it of my own for a few weeks. I currently have only two videos on it so far. The subject of the videos on my instance are computing and music. My instance does not allow others to sign up, but I…

Mind sharing a link to your instance?

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

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Post by fmisle »

mrmattyboy wrote: post #278
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…

> I expected to hate this and walked away thinking it was a pretty ok idea. Good job! Same here.. Though the services aren't bad, but the decent API made me feel like there's really some love put in. The main thing that put me off is the two acronyms that I barely hear anymore.. haven't seen lol in a long time and omg has certainly decreased for me, I'd feel awkward using it. Maybe if they had an additional re-brande…

You can use your custom domain :)

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

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Post by seti0Cha »

stkdump wrote: post #329
seti0Cha wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Classic response. Gaslight on the connotations, random accusation of assuming victim status (a sacred cow to the progressive), and the much loved "maybe you shouldn't express your opinions if you don't like our behavior"

As it happens, though, I don't see myself as a victim. I don't mind in the least people reacting to my opinions. But I also feel perfectly comfortable pointing out the nature of the reaction, which is generally not to engage with content but to turn it into a question of character. Which you have done.

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

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Post by zupa-hu »

andrecarini wrote: post #312
dcow wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean “ownership rights”?

If you buy a gTLD domain through a registrar, your ownership of the domain is bound by the rules established by ICANN [1][2]. If you purchase an eTLD+1 [3] subdomain from omg.lol (as part of the offered services) you're not covered by [1][2] but instead by [4, Section 1.5 part B, Section 3.2 part A]. What this means is OP can arbitrarily shutdown their offering at their sole discretion and, as a result, you'll lose a…

The only real difference is that Verisign makes more money than omg.lol, hence they have more resources and incentives to not screw you over. That, of course, has incredible weight, and indeed I'd not trust omg.lol while I do trust Verisign.
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