Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Nov 20 2019, Eric Wong wrote:

quoted

Yup,  .org TLD renewal costs will likely go up and I won't pay
higher costs to keep .org domains.

The system running public-inbox.org (and the recommended
onions(*)) will stay running and will have bleeding edge
code on it.


* Accessible via Tor, no need to depend on registrars:
  http://hjrcffqmbrq6wope.onion/
  http://ou63pmih66umazou.onion/
  http://czquwvybam4bgbro.onion/

I think it would make sense for the Git SFC arm of things[1] to consider
taking over the public-inbox.org domain rather than letting it expire
(of course contingent on your approval) and turning it into a CNAME (or
other redirect) for lore.kernel.org.

There's also https://public-inbox.org/meta/ and other (FLOSS-related)
mirrors and the root landing page itself.

We have a lot of mailing list and some (~130 commits) git.git commit
references to that domain. It seems like a worthwhile expense to me to
pay for the renewal of it rather than having it turn into e.g. some spam
landing page as the registration expires.

One feature I'd like to see in public-inbox and even git
porcelain and web viewers is the ability to rewrite URLs on the
client-side, similar to .mailmap.  It would make sense they all
share the same configuration.

1. Disclaimer: I'm one of the people who'd vote on making that decision
   if it came to that, but this E-Mail is, as they say, just like, my
   opinion, man :)

Fwiw, I intentionally keep the branding of the public-inbox
project weak (no trademarks, logos, real homepage) because I
believe strong branding and consolidation of influence/identity
leads to centralization.  It's easier to fork projects when
there's no logos, trademarks or other branding to deal with.

I also believe the term "public inbox" is a much more powerful
idea than any project could be.  To that end, I'm happy
SourceHut (and maybe others) also use that term.  The
"public-inbox" project is just one cheapskate's anti-consumerist
interpretation of that idea :>

I pretty much say whatever I can to sabotage my own credibility
as a result.  I'm also shy and introverted, so branding and good
marketing does not compute :P