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@lemmy.cnschn.comI've used gandi for about 10 years as well, but they lost me to porkbun with their recent not-so-well communicated price increases (including dropping the small free email mailboxes)
It works so well! I have my LMS server scrobble to maloja directly, multi-scrobbler for Spotify and even imported a Spotify data dump so I have my whole history in there.
Basically what you buy in the auction is not the domain, but the permission to go run it at a registrar of your choice.
If you have the technical aptitude for it, you can try to run an LLM locally. There is text-generation-webui that handles a lot of the dependencies, but it can still be a bit fiddly to set up. But then you can download any of the completely uncensored models and go to town! Models that fit on a single GPU are now surprisingly capable.
Honestly this was one of the main reasons for me, I like using my domain as my key identity in a sense. Same for Gotosocial and Matrix.