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I support the protracted PaX war against domain landlords
Anyway I'm gonna go buy gay.site as a bit cos I'm one of the good ones

Feeling more and more like the only way to attack capitalism is on the ground
Hexbear should use this as a chance to go outside. I need backing here, I’m afraid to go outside and need to find more people like y’all in the physical world
- If literal Nazis can get up the courage to meet in person, I feel like we should too.
  
  Which actual, IRL leftist org is not mercilessly ridiculed on this website? We do a very poor job around here of connecting comrades to orgs

I made a post about the exact same subject. Just a little less... unhinged lmao.
But I completely agree. If you're interested, there's a concept called petnames in the Spritely institute (made by Christrine Lemmer-Webber, lead author of ActivityPub, and others). In this concept, the name of your site would depend on how you name it / how other people nammed it. Here's the link: https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html#org1be8a0a
- I was first introduced to petnames by secure scuttlebutt, which seems mostly dead these days, but there were a lot of leftists on there for a few years at least. I love the concept, but it seems hard to transition from DNS since any alternative name system would involve extra software. not to say we shouldn't, but the app (or set of apps) that drives that change would have to be pretty compelling.

What is stopping someone from just starting up an alternative DNS system? Like, if you control some DNS servers, and convince people to use them, you can make any domain name point to any IP address, right? I understand the "network effect" barrier, but can we just make our own DNS (with blackjack and hookers)?
- Yes, and people have tried before (just running an alternate root). In this case, it's just the network effects that get you.
  There have also been decentralized attempts, but either they're not global (petnames) or they're shitcoins.
- hey I like making alternative DNS services and helping people who need them, take this
- Aw that's super cool. Never encountered that before, but I will look into it.