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@notplants idk, I guess I kinda felt like since bitcoin was first it might make sense to use that one for something as foundational as DNS. Like a bet on which one will be around the longest. But maybe that question is irrelevant now for bitcoin and ethereum since the answer is probably "if one will live, so will the other". Maybe I wrote this after the big ETH drama and hard fork idk lol

@notplants er, I should say, namecoin as best _purely technical_ solution, more realistic solutions will probably be more akin to private trackers or algospeak on social networks, social solutions

@notplants I think the story with ATProto was supposed to be that the identities were DIDs, which means you can use DNS for your identity, but you can also use multiple other pluggable DID interfaces. But it sounds like they very quickly bailed on that when building the app, requiring things like HTTP since they "just work"

I think people justifiably have soured on entirely p2p systems not named bittorrent. Because so many of them have been developed and then instantly failed, like, they basically won't turn on or they won't connect or they just appear to not do anything. As far as I know, the unfortunate reality is there just aren't any public & censorship resistant name systems that work reliably. (Zooko's triangle)

If you can tolerate the name being non-human readable, then it works fine, like a magnet link. Magnet links are... they work every single time.

I personally believe that namecoin is probably the best attempt to solve this problem. However, I gave up on using it after my namecoin names expired, I forgot to renew them, and they were stolen by a squatter. wrote about it long ago here:

https://sequentialread.com/how-to-register-a-namecoin-bit-domain-with-electrum-nmc/

Maybe one day it would be nice to have a comprehensive full suite of software and services that would make namecoin usable. I always kind of planned on trying to build that stuff... But I convinced myself that it was more important to make servers usable as they are first to create a jumping-off point for independent publishing, kind of like what you're working on right now. And then after I feel comfortable with that, then I would consider looking into improving the usability of namecoin.

@notplants To be fair, everything else except for the super hardcore peer-to-peer networks like nostr and SSB have that problem. It's particularly bad for activity pub where the domain name is in the ID of every single object.

I suppose it's not much of a consolation, but DNS is not strong censorship. Its easy to circumvent for those who seek and desire.

We already have to circumvent DNS censorship regularly; If you want to download Circuit Board diagrams for obsolete TVs or something you will probably need to bypass DNS censorship. ICE bragged about censoring 8 million domains in a year iirc.

@stillgreenmoss I'd say it's fine, I think it is probably better than the alternative of just sending the voice data off to a third party.

@austin This is especially egregious because it caused them to end up making their JSON parser case insensitive, which leads to security vulnerabilities.

Because otherwise you wouldn't be able to parse JSON where the keys start with lowercase letters.

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I think thats how the coop cloud backups work?

The docker configs get backed up somehow and then the contents of the docker volumes get borgbackuped . similar to yunohost but probly cleaner due to the containerization