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1. Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️ 2 min later

   @zachleat https://youtu.be/TAP7NVUPHrM

2. Max Böck 6 min later

   @zachleat I heard you can use your own domain as a handle

   1. Zach Leatherman 9 min later

      @mxbck incredible!

      1. Kegan Myers 20 min later

         @zachleat @mxbck Honestly if they ask nicely I am more than happy to help anyone make an instance, including helping them buy the domain name and providing “support”… Gotta start the journey somewhere.

         1. Erik Kroes ✅ 1 day later

            @terribleplan @zachleat @mxbck does that mean you have thoughts on this? 😇

            https://mastodon.social/@erikKroes/110689194570557427

3. Matthew Mone 51 min later

   @zachleat sounds neat, but do you have a catchy sales pitch on why I should want one?
   or are all my friends already there?
   😆

   1. Zach Leatherman 55 min later

      @matt all of your friends are just one URL away 😎

      1. Cory 2 hr later

         @zachleat @matt sold

      2. Dym Sohin 12 hr later

         @zachleat @matt
         a click away is a click too far

      3. windhamdavid 22 hr later

         @zachleat @matt and it works on all the devices.

4. Ross Nelson 1 hr later

   @zachleat I'm no longer a member of the library system that I used to check this out from. Good thing there's Amazon!

   https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471142425/

5. shimmeringtrashpile 1 hr later

   @zachleat @praxeology How many followers do I need in order to post links?

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @shimmeringtrashpile @praxeology unlimited links in bio

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7. Ollie Boermans 10 hr later

   @zachleat Don’t tell everyone, but I heard they don’t do anything to stop you making more than one.

   1. Zach Leatherman 19 hr later

      @ollicle 640 web sites ought to be enough for anybody

8. Yoav Weiss 11 hr later

   @zachleat do you have an invite to actually write content on your own site that's what I really need

   1. Dym Sohin 12 hr later

      @Yoav @zachleat
      not just an invite, a whole shortcut! — [Ctrl+N]

   2. Zach Leatherman 19 hr later

      @Yoav I did try a workflow like this with @aerotwist for awhile

      1. Yoav Weiss 20 hr later

         @zachleat @aerotwist and it worked!! https://aerotwist.com/blog/dear-zach/

   3. Oblomov 1 day later

      @Yoav @zachleat ah yes, the elusive willpower e-commerce site, let me know if you discover a good one

9. mehulkar 12 hr later

   @zachleat they’re all used up, will wait for the next batch!

   1. Zach Leatherman 19 hr later

      @mehulkar waiting for that new TLD to drop 😎

10. Robert Atkins 13 hr later

    @zachleat Zing! Yes, clever, funny, but… I put together my own website on my own domain. It’s a one pager with no interactive features, I happened to have hosting included with my pay-for email service (Fastmail), I’m a professional software engineer (though not web developer) and it took me over a week!

    Until building a self-sovereign presence on the web is as easy as signing up for a proprietary service people will keep signing up for proprietary services. And that is entirely rational!

    1. Patrick 21 hr later

       @ratkins @zachleat

       Kind of like saying that as long as cooking dinner is harder than ordering takeout, people will order takeout. Which...is true. But cooking is still awesome.

       I feel like the real barrier is hosting. People just really don't want to whip out their credit cards and pay every moth, and GitHub etc are too complicated for people who are just getting started.

       1. Robert Atkins 21 hr later

          @smyth @zachleat I don’t think the analogy quite holds. It’s more like that if you just get yourself some tools you can service your own car instead of taking it to the mechanic. Except you can’t, because modern cars are incredibly sophisticated and need expensive tools that require years of training to use properly. It’s entirely rational for people to not bother.

          1. Patrick 21 hr later

             @ratkins @zachleat

             I honestly think that cooking and making a website are more comperable in terms of time spent. The issue is that, when you go to learn to make a site, people try to teach you React or whatever. Then it's like building a car from scratch or whatever.

             People find HTML to be pretty intuitive, and cpanel is not hard once people know to look for it. But the current ecosystem is either for normie service users or full blown devs. There used to be more space in between.

             1. Robert Atkins 21 hr later

                @smyth @zachleat You are *vastly* overestimating the technical competence of average human. Cpanel? Ha! I’m a professional software engineer and my life’s too short to eff about with cPanel.

    2. Patrick 21 hr later

       @ratkins @zachleat

       Also, I have Fastmail, and didn't know they have hosting, and still don't see it on the site! Let me know if you have any info on that.

11. your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 20 hr later

    @zachleat

    ummmmm...

12. huesm 23 hr later

    @zachleat Is it free I would like to make a website and host it somewhere, What is the catch?

    1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

       @huesm you’ll have a web site which is a monkey’s paw

       1. huesm September 15, 2023

          @zachleat I don't understand can you elaborate?

          1. huesm September 15, 2023

             @zachleat Oh I C. hmm I am not sure that is good.

13. railmeat 1 day later

    @zachleat
    I heard those were hard to get. There is no one ask for permission.

14. Skrrp 1 day later

    @zachleat why would anyone need an invite to run their favourite text editor?

15. Scott Duensing 1 day later

    @zachleat I'm confused. Invites? To what? I can make my own site with Notepad if I really want to.

16. Alex Michael Berry 🐈🐩 3 days later

    @zachleat I'd love a tripod invite.

17. Alex 🇮🇹 💛 🇷🇺 3 days later

    @zachleat

    🚨 I'm opening to the public the beta testing of this new technology called RSS to stay up to date without being tracked 😱😎 👉🏻subscribe

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