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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. $2
by simonhamp 4y ago
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
- robjan 4y agoThat'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.
- simonhamp 4y agoSeems like a bit of fun. I've definitely thought even less about something before parting with $20 on it /shrug
- quickthrower2 4y agoIt is not the $20 that is a the main problem. Backlinks to your profile and contacts with that email address for example.
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- Volundr 4y agoI mean you could say the same about any business. I fail to see how this is unique in that regard.
- charcircuit 4y agoA DNS server, landing page and email can be had for free. For the rest there are free alternatives like twitter, pastebin, etc.
- derefr 4y agoMany DNS registrars offer very similar sets of value-add services for free for real TLDs people buy through them. Web "parking pages" and vanity email forwarding are table stakes. What wouldn't be table stakes, would be if each of these was its own Mastodon instance, or something else like that that actually had an OpEx cost.
- strokirk 4y agoTrouble is, many registrars do with with way worse UX. I own domains from two registrars and loathe to use their interfaces.
- hot_gril 4y agoI get it, but $20 still seems rather high for that. Anyway, it's a cool website.
- 627467 4y agoInteresting... 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.
- hot_gril 4y agoThere 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.