Why?

In the internet biz since 1993 here (retired): choose your registrar as carefully as your domain name.

Lowest price is the dumbest reason. It’s never the way to choose anything. ID what your needs are, what satisfies that, then shop for the best price…

Anyway at the moment for my purposes the EU with it’s gdpr and other rules is the best choice for many reasons. I’m using joker.com.

Top level domains (.ml etc) have their own rules, you gotta read them carefully. I don’t know anything about .ml and whether they allowed that usage or not.

Your post thst I am replying to now, is public. Anyone can see it. Why would s down or upvote be any different?

I’ve given up. My friends are all brain-stuck on faceblerk, even though they all claim to hate not even one will consider changing. I just abandoned them there and talk to them on the - gasp - phone once in a while.

It’s the goddamn internets. Change is all it is. I don’t get the big deal. Just fkm move.

Pretty damn good. I switched from Gmail, which afaik is amongst the best.

I hosted email professionally and for myself both, from the old days writing send mail rules in vi to turnkey shit. Absolute not worth the substantial hassle. Doesn’t scale small. The auth and security stuff is a PITA, then you find one thing was wrong and other domains were silently dropping all your mail, never delivered. Ugh. Protonmail it is.

Oh please, spare us the silly drama.

Consider reading this brief explanation of the issues by one of the ActivityPub authors…

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

You don’t need either. It’s not about places, so much as it’s about people and conversations.

Maybe you only have used corporate centralized giant sites? Believe me, that was the anomaly.

You can’t and don’t visit every cafe, every club, every library, you mostly visit a few locals and seek out the rest.

Same thing here. Also with this you get actual diversity. You can change instances and still see everything!

You just have to learn how this new system works. It’s far far better.

It’s always been so. John@aol.com, john@outlook.com, john@foobar.com, … What’s the problem?

Please read Eugen Rotchko’s thoughts and approach to threads.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

Here’s Eugen Rotchko’s thoughts.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

Sigh, just tell me which team to join, so I don’t have to make anxiety producing decisions and alienate anyone. Don’t wanna rock the boat!

Bigger is better, right?

/S in case it isn’t obvious.