• Endless Sky – open-source space game. I actually contributed to it back in the day; a date format option and a full-blown storyline about an author. Unfortunately the storyline is in development hell cause I lost motivation to work on it.
• OpenTTD – really awesome, with NewGRFs and mods you can have a somewhat “realistic” rail experience (as in, using actual real-life trains. Obviously a pixel game isn’t the most “realistic” with graphics)
• Mindustry
• Pioneer Space Sim

I don’t have anything hosted just yet, but when I do, I’ll look into a reverse proxy

And I don’t check my email every single day. Scary.

Nitter ended up getting their domain back though.. However, the good ending doesn’t always happen.

Thankfully I don’t have anything “controversial” on my website.

That’s crazy. 90% of views from a single person. How often does this happen usually?

Just basic information about myself and maybe a thing or two I’ve done on the Internet.

Someday if I get the time or the server resources, I’d add subdomains to it to host other stuff, for example “lemmy.example.com”, while “example.com” would just be the basic information, and probably a directory to all the other subdomain stuff.

Actually, you need to go build a time travel machine and recreate the Internet and all its infastructure from scratch if you want to have true ownership of your domain. Or you know, just reinvent the Internet in a premodern society or something, idk.

Were you able to take back your domain using Porkbun, or did you have to use a completely different one?

Yeah, I’m on the .ph top-level domain, one of the more expensive ones. I blame the price on the registrar, not Njalla.

Did Njalla keep the domain forever or did they not renew it such that you could simply go straight to the registrar to take it back?

Additionally, what did you do exactly with the domain that may have motivated Njalla to just… do such a thing?

Not many results for Njalla there, just someone saying they have a few of them through Njalla but offering no thoughts of the service

If 10,000 people work one hour in one day, then that day still had 10,000 hours worked even if a day is only 24 hours. Same with CPUs, many of them run on more than just one core.

Pridyider, the Filipino movie about a haunted fridge. Haven’t been able to find a copy of it in years unfortunately.

Curiosity, concern, and the hope that the person’s still living a good life.

And you are not annoying me, don’t worry.

Nothing really, all the rabbit holes I’ve went down are all in English or conlangs whose documentation is in English. And for search resources - all you really need is Google or DuckDuckGo, a couple hours, patience, and basic knowledge of OSINT

I’m not really interested in tracking you, lol.

You don’t really meet the criteria - I already know from you replying to this thread and my comments, that you are still well and alive - and determining that is the main goal of an investigation. So it would be redundant.

Who knows, maybe the dictionary is wrong, but I guess it wouldn’t be wrong to extend the meaning of usyoso. Yay for language evolution

That’s just the act of lurking, it doesn’t say anything about the feelings you get while lurking.

I am a Tagalog speaker too (but I had to look usyoso up in the dictionary lol)

I’ve gone on goose chases all over the internet and done “dormancy investigations” of sorts in ways similar to you (though I’m unsure how similar exactly). I have a wiki on my own computer where I store the findings of these investigations alongside other unrelated things.

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to develop roleplay contexts to understand people that make and seek out connections like this or various other ways.

What exactly do you mean? On my “dormancy investigations” I have a rule for myself where I only lurk, read, and dig - I do not try to contact the person, ever. Though before I set this rule for myself - I remember actually reaching out to one of them and got a positive reply but I probably got lucky on that one, not chancing things now.

I struggle most to understand boundaries that other people have. I try not to pry, […]

Yup, I just try to dig through the Wayback Machine or what’s left of the website, to me, trying to contact the person or asking anyone who may be related to the person who the person is, is “prying”.

And I suppose that I just have a nostalgia of the Internet that was. The internet of the early 2000s. I was not alive when the 2000s Internet was at its peak; well not old enough to know how to use a computer let alone even read. So… I don’t really know what else I can say.

I’m a conlanger actually, the dormant person feeling gets its own word in Thiguka (patalara) and Kenahari (second conlang so far).

Awesome, it’s a shame though I’m in 100+ Discord servers lmao