I mean I’m not a fan of their other services but they have been pretty okay as a domain registrar. Gandi is pretty decent too :) My favourite is prokbun.

I have some understanding of how this works:

• There’s a non-profit organisation called ICANN at the top who basically controls everything and assigns TLD (top level domains like .com) and so on to registries.
• Registries host different TLDs and keep track of all domains under them.
• Registrar is an ICANN accredited company that can sell domain names. When you buy abcd.net from say Google domains, Google basically files your domain name with the .net registery.

As far as I know, you can’t buy a domain from ICANN directly because they don’t sell stuff? Only registrars can.

In practice there are registrars that charge you the actual price of the domain + a small registration fee (15 cents maybe) in a transparent way without any markup. An example is cloudflare.

Also in practice stay away from GoDaddy. They’re one of the most horrible companies I know. Porkbun, cloudflare, namecheap, namesilo, Google are all usually moderately priced good options. You can find details of all registrars for a tld and their prices using tld-list like: tld-list.com/tld/nameoftld.

Hope that helps :)

The last part made me lol. I really never understood how they use Bayes theorem to justify decision making in real life. Made me feel stupid for a while, but then most of the people I knew who were in the community didn’t seem like really good decision makers either.

It feels like a cult at some level. With very technical jargon that a lot of people struggle to understand.

No worries :) Likely that they might be unrelated.

That was an interesting read. This is a shot in the dark but was this community related to less-wrong (and HPMOR tangentially)? That’s the only other place I’ve seen where it is sort of like this.

It is hilarious to see this happening. Option A, he could have just shut up, released a press statement and waited till this blew over, he didn’t do that. Option B would have been to do an AMA, engage with people and say nice but meaningless things to placate people and do whatever he wants in private, he didn’t do that either.

Instead he choses to host an AMA, copy pastes canned responses, edits his comment when someone caught it, ditches the canned response when a question is asked about the Apollo thing and doubles down, and finally leaves after answering 14 questions.

You really can’t make this shit up 🤣

Exactly! My favourite is swipe to vote up/down!

Me too. The app has a classic feel to it that isn’t replicated by other apps.

That is awesome :) Thank you for chipping in. I wasn’t aware it was this far along already!

Something that seems to be missing: Someone is working on an API compatibility/translation layer to help in porting reddit apps to lemmy and have already got some basic features working in RedReader. The RedReader (opensource Android reddit client) dev has expressed some interest in this along with the user base.

https://v.redd.it/xzvh8kih8d4b1

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars

https://feddit.de/c/tafkars

Mostly. I try to think of instance as not a subreddit but a loose collection of them, like a multireddit.

What is kind of nice, in my understanding, is that text content is replicated across federated instances when a user is using both. So if you’re on beehaw and comment on lemmy.ml, both of these servers will have your comments. That’s already providing slightly more redundancy than reddit.