we really should start relying on our own internet and stuff. Running our own root tlds, or better, create a decentralized one, where no one really is in control, at least not alone.

the current internet is way to centralized around big corps, and we can’t have that.

going to our very own stuff, so relying on a decentralized DNS, away from “modern” internet, would certain hurt a lot. As it would mean loosing access to everything currently existing, however one could have proxies for stuff that needs current internet infra, like banks.

Our fedi instances, matrix, all runing on decentralized infrastructure, starting with DNS

@lynastral dns would be so much better if whois didn’t exist

but yes i want this please

@lumi whowhat? idk who that is nor do i care :3

this is how internet should be

@lynastral copyright lawyers would like to know your location

@lumi copywhat? idk what that is either

@lynastral coferight

@lumi that’s more interesting :3

@lynastral

@lynastral how do you solve zooko's triangle (have a naming system that is both decentralised, secure, and has human-meaningful names)?

@noisytoot i don’t have a solution per say, or rather i don’t have a specific implementation myself. Am mostly calling for action and more realistically, yelling in the void.

However, i’ll note that there are some sort of DNS like systems, already in place that do not require a single entity. I2P’s way of solving dns, is by locally assigning base64 addresses to actual domains, this is called the address book. If something is not in your addressbook, you can use one of the multiple jump services, to map the associated domain to an address. This is not perfect, it has drawbacks, it’s not perfectly decentralized, but it works. And anyone can run a jump service without requiring a lot of infra work

@noisytoot one could also just ask the network who is [domain name] and weight results however they like, to get the proper address

@noisytoot oh an i almost forgot, there are some alternative root dns, this doesn’t make it decentralized, but it’s at least better than running on icann’s controlled infra for everything