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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! $19.95 vs $20
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
What is SDF? I found it (sdf.org) but still unsure of what is the practical use. It reminds me of hashbang.sh, of which I also have an account but never found a use for it.
The founder, Adam, is a genuinely good dude. He just keeps adding more features and the service gets better and better.
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
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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
That's great until they get bored of running the service and you've now lost all of the aforementioned which are dependent on their domain.
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- 3.1: The fact that a content license is necessary at all, and that it's still worded too broadly for my taste. - 3.2: "We may change, suspend, or discontinue any of our Services." [...] "We make no representation, warranty or condition regarding the availability or operability of the Services at any time." This means you effectively have no ownership of the subdomain and no control over the availability of the serv…
Every service can change, suspend, or discontinue.
If 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)
I would kill to know how many people converted despite these comments.
It took me 10s to load the homepage. How long would it take to forward an email?