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There is a client-side solution, even if not the most elegant.

I'm paying a domain, this way i have 100% control of my e-mail alias, even if my current provider (google) goes south, i'm still able to host the mail on my own server to retrieve accounts, and maintain ownership or the alias

Re:Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems (2020) on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:25PM (#38171887)
Well timed article, been having a ton of headache trying to explain this on the Univeraal Analytics vs GA4...

Extends way further than programming and could be applied to Metric/Imperial measuring, english as de-facto international language vs Esperanto and such

Re:Threads, an Instagram App on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:14AM (#36586224)
The user base is exactly what's not easily replicable.

And trying to "migrate" a user base from Instagram seems like a shot in the foot in this context, even if the whole mechanic of the platform is pretty much the same as twitter, the user base is already completely different

Re:Four Thousand Weeks on Sunday January 15, 2023 @11:08AM (#34390405)
As much as i disagree with you point of view reducing a pretty good article into a word, i'd rather say i's in fact...

Kind of nihilist.

Or at least a little bit.

But i don't think nihilism itself looks deep into the "be content" part, but way more in the "nothing matters" which is not the point of the article.

Existencialism and Absurdism in the other hand, seems like a "better label" for it imho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism