"premium" .eu.cc domains go for 10 dollars from them. The ones they let people have for free are less than 2 USD for registration and yearly renewal. I'm willing to lose these domains if they try to charge for it

Yeah, I'll need to set that dyndns, my IP4 isn't fixed. Haven't checked the IP6 tho, might try it later today - leaving the router turned off for some 10 minutes, then turning it back on will give me the answer

First of all I would suggest getting your own domain.

Isn't this what I just did? mydomain.eu.cc Even if I can't get it to renew for free next year, the experience of setting stuff up should be worth it.

really need to be exposed to the internet to get updates?

From my limited understanding of APub, it needs to be exposed/findable in order to send updates and for my user@server to show up. I'll be reading https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#server-to-server-interactions to know better

Can’t it pull them from other servers?

Tunnel through an existing server? Or what, exactly? Wouldn't connecting through an existing fedi server also enforce its blocklist down to me?

Don't forget the irony of the "OwO what's this" in the casing

As I don't have any VPS, it sounds like I'll have to rely with cloudflare's tunnel then? That or register with one listed here? https://github.com/savyasathe/free-vps

Being nomadic hunter/gatherers was so amazing, we invented subsistence agriculture just to get away from it.

David Graeber and David Wengrow (The Dawn of Everything) disagree. It was always very labor intensive with significant drawbacks (especially during seasons where crops won't grow), to the point that many groups openly dismissed the idea of being farmers of any kind. It took ages to get "large scale" (plots larger than 1000m²) agriculture "right" enough for it to actually be worth the time spent.

The reason for the insistence on agriculture, despite all the hardships, among groups with all sorts of hierarchical organizations, is the real million dollar question.

Agriculture also happened as an on/off season thing, with groups being nomad for a season, then "settling" and planting for another. No point in keeping a land year-round when half of that time there's no actual land (underwater) or people around and the other half needs a lot of manpower to work it; manpower that is very ready to pack their shit and leave. There are many ways agriculture showed up and not all of them had an asshole bossing everyone while saying "MINE!"

I think one thing that kept life expectancies low was high child mortality, that will skew the average downwards. Unless they were accounting for that measured separately

Don't forget the many, many hours spent weaving simple fabrics and baskets, cutting down and grinding wood and rocks into tools, lifting small wooden houses, fighting off annoying and nasty bugs, the many trips to bring water from a reliable source to the camp, maybe going 1 or 2 days without food because there are no edible plants/fruit around and the hunter party couldn't get shit. You better not be squeamish about eating just about every part of animals, including brain, tongue, eyes, intestines, lungs, bone marrow.

Probably little to no seasoning to whatever you happen to eat, either. Salt? Good fucking luck if you're far from the sea.

Step 1: have a rich parent

Alternative step 1: steal from a rich person

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> got mugged by a druggie, lost my lunch