They aren't third party. They are buying Google Domains and all of the customers that come with it. If you don't like it, don't continue to use them. It happens every time a company gets bought out, the customers are part of that package.

Is this different from voyager.lemmy.ml? If so how, and why should I join another instance instead of continuing to use that one?

And people wonder why I prefer forums. The "Discordifcation" of everything is out of control.

I was going to include that, however in my literal minute of searching him, I couldn't find a verified source. I will admit, I didn't try ~~very hard~~ at all so I may have just overlooked it.

But yes, he needs step 0 as well!

If you are looking for a little bit of "extra" to go with your password manager, check out firefox relay. You can create emails that forward to your real email without exposing it. They allow you to block emails entirely, or just promotions. Their paid option is like $12/year (USD) and allows unlimited masks, and allowing you to create your own relay subdomain (like (whatever I decide)@dusty.mozmail.com). It's definitely worth the relatively tiny charge for the paid version.

There is also a relay service with Cloudflare but I've not tried it out yet. But having an email like [email protected] saved to my password manager is no big deal.

easier access to their official forum would have been great.

What's "not easy" about it? Having to click on their website instead of your own? Having to use a usernamd and password like literally every other site you log into (use a password manager)? Needing an email address (use a throwaway or something like firefox relay).

I get that people love the latest "shiny new thing" (lemmy) but that doesn't suddenly make everything else "difficult". Also for the vast majority of people, signing up to a forum is much easier than finding an lemmy instance, figuring out how to browse other instances, figuring out the layout (being cards isn't always ideal), figuring out the (sometimes slow defintely clunky) search, etc...

In this instance, having a forum that they control, in a format that the vast majority of their userbase is used to, is the way to go. They are a company after all. So providing the best experience for their users should be quite high on their priority list, not using "latest shiny thing that's still extremely niche"

And services like firefox relay so yo don't have to give up your own email addres and can easily turn it off if it ends up on a spam list. For a service like Jellyfin a forum is the best way to go.

Add in the fact they'd end up having to defederate a lot of instances due to trolls and whatnot, and it's much better that they run it on their own site. It's much better from a moderation viewpoint for them. I know people will be all upset here, but it's honestly for the best.

You mean Racknerd correct?

They are great, I have a couple of servers with them (including the one that's hosting my lemmy instance)

Why is this in Technology and not someplace like /c/reddit or something? I don't subscribe here for the latest reddit drama.

I switched to aegis a while ago, it's been one of the best apps I've used for authentication. I was using Authelia for along time before that but my backup stopped working unbeknownst to me. I found out while doing a regular backup/restore test it had borked itself.

I'll have to check this out, it's been ages since I've used an RSS reader. Pretty much since Digg went ~~under~~ 2.0 probably.