Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale!
As explained therein, I'm already getting great value from Weird in its nascent MVP stage as a personal-page generator. Weird has helped me put my root custom domain into active use, thus taking up space on the web as a sovereign individual.
After 35 years of living, ~25 of them as a netizen, I finally have my very own front door on the interwebs. Now the POSSE journey begins in earnest.
I paid $10 for the privilege. That's the all-important feature added in this release: accepting payments. (Shoutout to the excellent Polar.)
The earliest of Early Adopters can now buy one year of our Weird.one premium service - affectionately named 'Weird Nerd' - for the low-low price of $10 (80% off!) for your first year and $25 (50% off) for the next.
We do this because Weird aspires to be a high-trust network that strictly minimizes inauthentic activities. The numerical suffix is one of several measures against anti-social behavior such as domain-squatting and bot registrations.
This is doubly important in a pluralistic social web in which people who sign up for a free sub-domain on Weird may want to use that as their username on e.g. Bluesky as well; we want all accounts representing our community to be authentic and trustworthy.
