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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.