$20 a year for a subdomain I can't control (dns records), sounds like a great deal.
Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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The "neoliberal" thing again. I remember that article on HN about Iran's firewall using that word, and the confusion in the comments.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there. $20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
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.
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#44The real price isn't $20, it's the cost of everything you lose when the service shuts down
You mean, like every other service anybody stands up ever? The ones that charge money are the ones that stand any chance of surviving.
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#45If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the audience.
I sense the point of this funny domain is the community, and community is centered on mastodon instance which btw, is not cheap to run as soon as it grows beyond a few hundred people. (I'm including potential moderation costs)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would pay you $20/y for a regular domain that doesn't do anything until you spend more money (and time and money) to make it do something?
Because of the ToS [0], in particular articles 3.1 and 3.2. [0] https://home.omg.lol/info/legal
What about this concerns you?
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#47The real price isn't $20, it's the cost of everything you lose when the service shuts down
You mean, like every other service anybody stands up ever? The ones that charge money are the ones that stand any chance of surviving. https://archive.is/7LxAh
The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now.
My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.
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#48why 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…
Honestly the dichotomy of that personality type with an "@omg.lol" email is pretty great to me, personally.
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#49The real price isn't $20, it's the cost of everything you lose when the service shuts down
Sir, this is not a Google-branded service, nothing to worry about.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean, like every other service anybody stands up ever? The ones that charge money are the ones that stand any chance of surviving. https://archive.is/7LxAh
The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now. My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.
> The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing.
aka the (postulated) Lindy Effect