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.