Thanks, I hate it.
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I've used gandi for about 10 years as well, but they lost me to porkbun with their recent not-so-well communicated price increases (including dropping the small free email mailboxes)
It works so well! I have my LMS server scrobble to maloja directly, multi-scrobbler for Spotify and even imported a Spotify data dump so I have my whole history in there.
Basically what you buy in the auction is not the domain, but the permission to go run it at a registrar of your choice.
Another vote for Porkbun here, in my case using Cloudflare for my nameservers.
Soooo, they skipped being Extender and went straight to the Extinguisher phase?
Honestly this was one of the main reasons for me, I like using my domain as my key identity in a sense. Same for Gotosocial and Matrix.
Thought of that one immediately, it's so much fun and really easy to pick up!
Congratulations, you did the thing this meme is about!
I was a bit weirded out by this as well, but honestly - it's pretty straightforward and has been working just fine for me. shrug
The thing is, it's "only" a simulation, and with DFT stuff (the approach used in the simulation) there is usually quite a bit of wiggle room to get some interesting results. It's still kind of a big deal, it says something like "hey these people's results might not be complete nonsense", but I'm still waiting for someone reproducing something experimentally.