@rauschma That's an awful lot of complexity which gets...

@rauschma That's an awful lot of complexity which gets you back to the same dilemma you had in the first place: either the user owns their own domain name (hosted on the domain name system) *and* a server they can point that domain name at; or they're dependent on someone else to host it.

I don't think you win anything at all.

Like 1 December at 23:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.scot

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Axel Rauschmayer

@simon_brooke
– It’s for advanced users only.
– You only need to own the domain *or* the server.
– Upside: If the server suddenly disappears (for technical, legal, financial etc. reasons), then you haven’t lost your identity.

1 December at 23:25 | Open on fosstodon.org

Simon Brooke replied to Axel

@rauschma If the registry with which you have registered your domain disappears, (for technical, legal, financial etc. reasons), then you have absolutely lost your identity.

This is the same problem. Domain registries are these days just commercial entities like any other, and they're frankly often not at the more ethical end of the commercial entity spectrum.

1 December at 23:29 | Open on mastodon.scot

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