Similar here. Reddit has become, for better or worse, just another Facebook. I include in my search queries when I need. I get in for specific communities and get out immediately afterwards.

I’m curious as well. I want to selfhost a personal instance, but CGNAT is getting on the way. I can always pay for VPS, but then the recent shenanigans involving CSAM images potentially being synced from rogue instances scared me.

I’m aware cock.li is for the meme edgelords, but what about purelymail?

I would have to find a way to keep them on without needing a battery inserted.

I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.

Seeing how the gun emoji was rebranded into a water gun, I won’t be surprised if same process is attempted anywhere in the world.

There was the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Philippines.

It reminds of 90s almost utopian view of how internet will shape humanity.

I do wish there was an instance that becomes perhaps half as popular as Reddit did at its peak. Just barely enough so we can expose to opinions outside the typical young tech-enthusiast crowd.

Makes sense. I’m happy with my current provider but purelymail is a strong candidate for if I’m out of options.

Info please? All I’ve seen were offers around ~10 usd minimum for renewal.

Gandi’s case hurts me. I had been paying for years but they kept raising their prices like dragonball z power levels.

I was very tempted to go for this one, but couldn’t find info on whether this was a one-man operation or if there are any disaster recovery plans. Sounds cruel, but if that one single guy my email depends on gets hit by a bus…

You mean those websites that instead of email input fields there are multiple horizontal stripes saying “Login with Google” and such?

I hate them, too… but I suppose it’s for the mobile crowd that don’t make distinctions between sms, fb/whatsapp messages, and email altogether.

I wonder if all those gmail accounts will be seen like yahoo addresses one day.

Be careful OP that after first year you have to pay the ‘renew’ price, which is generally higher than ‘register’ price. A lot of cheap domain offers use that trick expecting users to become attached to their domains.

Thankfully not even Gmail could become a walled garden since it’s expected for a decent company to have its own domain (and email address).

So the question is: why was it designed this way? Why can’t we bypass the battery to power up the device from the charging cable alone?

There has to be a more elegant way of dealing with this in the future, like de-coupling between Lemmy-account hosting (which effectively means acitivypub-fediverse account) and Lemmy-communities hosting.