Automatically respond to scam calls and emails, keeping scammers overwhelmed with useless work.
Since his acquisition shenanigans started, I felt like that was like a spoiled billionaire kid who didn't get the reverence he thought he deserved from a waiter, then proceeded to buy the restauran chain just to close it.
As a funny coincidence, your post showed on my home page 2 posts apart from this one:
https://lemmy.world/post/2021471
(Microsoft forcing migration from the default mail app)
When vlemmy.net disappeared (and it was the only one I had registered to), I registered at lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and while I was trying to register at lemmy.ML, I registered at feddit.NL by mistake. (then I requested a login at lemmy.ml, but never got a confirmation).
At the moment feddit.NL is the only instance I have a login at that I can use.
That was a happy mistake :-)
Maybe the problem is me. If feddit.nl goes down, I'll know for sure.
Yes and yes.
You can have multiple communities with the same name in different instances, and not necessarily about the same subject.
You can also have not only the same display name as multiple other users, but even the same username, if not in the same instance.
I don't think it is a payment issue. At least in Brazil (where I live), a registration (which can be done directly with the .br registrar, not necessarily third parties) costs less than 10 USD a year.
vlemmy.net was registered less than 2 months ago, for 5 years. I suppose (hope) it was already paid for 5 years.
it's strange that it's parked at a dynamic dns service though
I did, on feddit.nl, to be able to post this :)
Then I realized the feddit.nl domain was registered less than 2 months ago.
Luckily I don't care about upvote balance (if I did, I'd probably have stayed in reddit as a karma hostage), so I'll just keep hopping instances if they stope working.
That makes sense. I'm a reddit refugee, just recently joined. Should have checked the domain registration date. I suppose there will be a lot of new instances dying or not being properly maintened in the near future.
Edit: when I couldn't access vlemmy.net, I signed up to feddit.nl. Just checked the domain registration date; June 1st 2023. Bummer.
Could be a dns server malfunctioning (or rather misconfiguration).
After all, "it's always DNS"
Well, not being owned by a profit-driven evil stab-us-in-the-back company going IPO has advantages and disadvantages :-(
It seems dynu.com is a dynamic dns service. Was vlemmy.net running from a variable IP (dhcp) address? Is that usual for lemmy instances?
Here's me from feddit.nl.