How it works
Pull up a chair.
Domains Are Expensive is a social network built around conversation. Someone introduces an idea, people gather around it, and it goes somewhere.
Explore → Think → Respond → Take a seat.
Explore.
Wander through things people are thinking about.
Think.
Leave something that's been on your mind.
Respond.
Add your perspective when something catches you.
Take a seat.
Join a live written Table when a conversation deserves a room.
You can stop anywhere along the way.
Looking around is a real way to be here. Nobody is told you were nearby.
Today I'm.
Opening a social app doesn't mean you want to be social. Every time you come in, you set how available you are. It's body language, not a status.
Just exploring
Wander anywhere, read anything. Domains Are Expensive won't introduce anyone to you, and you won't be surfaced to anyone else.
Open to conversation
You're around if something interesting happens. People you keep crossing paths with may say hello.
Feeling social
Domains Are Expensive makes it a little easier to bump into someone whose interests overlap unusually well with yours.
No green dots, no "active now". Just a faint arc around someone who's open to being approached. Nobody sees your history of these states — it resets on its own, and there's nothing to keep a streak of.
Look around first.
On most social networks, publishing is treated as participation. Domains Are Expensive sees it differently.
Listening is participation.
Exploring is participation.
Thinking before responding is participation.
Changing your mind is participation.
You don't have to constantly produce something to belong here. New members can do almost everything straight away — read, respond, reply, wander, message. Starting your own conversation waits a little, until you've seen how people talk here. And once you can, it's a couple a week. Not "what should I post today", but "is this actually worth bringing up".
How conversations work.
- 01A conversation is a group standing around a question, not a post with replies underneath.
- 02You can stand at the edge and listen for as long as you like.
- 03When you speak, you take a stance — build on something, push back, or ask.
- 04Nothing is ranked by popularity. Distance and relevance decide what you see.
Take a seat.
Tables are live, written conversations around a question. People take seats, Domains Are Expensive moderates, and everyone types instead of talks.
Everyone gets to be on the panel
No microphone, no fighting for airtime.
A moderator that listens
Domains Are Expensive follows the interesting idea and keeps things moving.
Time to mean it
Take a moment, write what you actually mean, then bring it to the Table.
The energy of a live conversation, with the space to actually think.
Where Domains Are Expensive starts.
Most social networks
Someone posts. People react.
Domains Are Expensive
Someone introduces an idea. People gather around it.
Most social networks
Stay visible.
Domains Are Expensive
Disappear for three weeks. We'll be here.
Most social networks
Tell us about yourself.
Domains Are Expensive
Tell us what you're into.
Most social networks
What's trending?
Domains Are Expensive
What's interesting to you?
How people cross paths.
You and Mako keep ending up in the same places.
Human Behavior · Technology · Internet Culture
You don't always agree. There's no follow button — proximity does the work.
How your Domain Card develops.
The things you explore.
The questions you keep returning to.
The rabbit holes you follow.
The perspectives that change yours.
The people you keep crossing paths with.
Over time, they become your Domain Card — a map that gets richer with curiosity, never with audience size.
Sharing, pseudonymity and privacy.
You're here under a persistent pseudonym. Your Domain Card can stay entirely inside Domains Are Expensive, or you can publish a version of it anywhere you want.
Linktree
My Domain Card →
Dating profile
Want to know what I'm actually like? My Domain Card →
Personal site
Get to know me →
- You choose exactly what appears on your public Domains Are Expensive.
- Private activity — what you read, where you lingered — stays private.
- Nobody is notified that you were nearby.
- Verified credentials confirm credibility without revealing your legal identity.
Just be curious.