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A comment on Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usernames.

Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by vermilingua on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:40PM (#36626808)
Could be a huge boon to the self-hosted movement, might reach the critical mass of users that are willing to fund open source development of self-hosted cloud, just BYO domain
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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by bwoodward on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:43PM (#36626829)
its only a txt record, not hosting a node (etc)
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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by vermilingua on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:07AM (#36632000)
Yes, but it may mean that many people may be buying domains for the first time, and then realising that that opens the door to self hosting many other services.
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