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Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by paulgb »

riffraff wrote: post #175
devjab wrote: post #133

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Identity management is the biggest issue with social media. I'm on mastodon, but my "identity" is tied directly to the server instance that I'm on. If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity". If my "identity" was tied to a domain I owned then keeping it would be as simple as changing a few DNS settings. I don't know enough about Bluesky to say if it's actually going to be an…

Mastodon allows you to both run a server on your domain and move to a different one. This isn't unlike running your blog and I'm pretty sure there are solutions like WordPress.com that run it for you with your domain.

Account migration still depends on the server you are moving from being online and not blocking the migration. It is only a partial solution to the problems that people look to identity migration to solve.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #173
tsimionescu wrote: post #144

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Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.

DNS is good enough for companies, governments, schools, organizations, military etc. Not to mention that most other identities are tied to a DNS identity of some sort. Sure it’s not ideal as something completely trust less and distribute like PGP, but it’s been 33 years and no one can come up with a decent UX for that because it’s not really possible. $8 a year is a barrier to entry, especially if you consider people…

No it is not. It is the easiest way for a country to block as MiTM is not only possible, it is the expected way of how DNS operate. I think it is not very common in US (as of now) that the government censors using DNS, but it is very popular in countries like India.

And if you take 1000s of judges of different ideologies who could do it, I would rather put my trust in Google that they won't mistakenly ban my account.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jusoren »

Thats cool and all, but give me my invite already. Been on the waitlist since they first announced last year and still waiting for it till this day.

I've tried the selfhostable pds and its definitely looking good, the ability to selfhost our data ourselves. Plus like the article promoted, the ability to link username to our own domain name.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

netheril96 wrote: post #121
copperx wrote: post #101

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I'm surely bikeshedding, but isn't Bluesky a terrible name for a social network?

So is "Threads" in my opinion. But I downloaded Threads regardless.

Threads looks like absolute genius as a brand name next to "Bluesky" although Bluesky also looks genius next to "Mastodon", like how many people picked randomly on the street could even spell that one.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by slig »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #274
netheril96 wrote: post #121

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So is "Threads" in my opinion. But I downloaded Threads regardless.

Threads looks like absolute genius as a brand name next to "Bluesky" although Bluesky also looks genius next to "Mastodon", like how many people picked randomly on the street could even spell that one.

Mastodon at least comes with "toot", can't beat that.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jquery »

Sakos wrote: post #109
rhaway84773 wrote: post #57

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https://www.threads.net/t/CuW3CzRtm9z/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA... > The real test is not if we can build up a lot of hype, but if you all find enough value in the app to keep using it over time. And there are tons of basics that are missing: search, hashtags, a following feed, graph syncing, fedeverse support, messaging maybe…

Wait, what does Threads show you if it doesn't have a following feed? Also, how the hell do you launch a Twitter competitor without search and tags?

>Wait, what does Threads show you if it doesn't have a following feed?

its like tiktok and twitter had a baby. it shows you content it thinks you will like based on how you use the app. i think? it's good at surfacing what i want to see based on my initial follows

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by cout »

anileated wrote: post #220
tsimionescu wrote: post #194

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Yes, DNS is good enough for organizations (though I should note that governments don't rely on DNS registrars, they run their own). The crucial difference is that organizations can hire people to care about those things, or hire lawyers to ensure they can be recovered if accidentally lost. And in fact many of these organizations change domains in the longer run for various reasons. So even there, DNS is often only us…

There can be two kinds of identities: your actual legal one and ones you should be okay with losing. People keep devising more and more involved ways to maintain identities other than your legal one, but if you think about it you can still lose any of those ways (your domain name, your private key, etc.) and in the end no one should use them for anything serious.

Identity also needs to be hard to copy (which is the main reason e.g. you would not want to use your a hash of your DNA as an identity -- it would be hard to lose but easy to copy).

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jtr1 »

Karsteski wrote: post #258
dkh wrote: post #254

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What is the thing that Nazis do?

Advocate for racial hierarchies, spread hateful messages about various minorities, promote subjugation for women and violence as purification for men. The usually nazi shit, although the ones with extra brain cells try to be coy about it.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by SkyMarshal »

politician wrote: post #176
rmuratov wrote: post #167

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What is good? Public GPG keys?

The identity layer should be built as a blockchain. Ignore the cryptocurrency connection, focus on the distributed decentralized identity ledger.

You can’t ignore the cryptocurrency layer, it’s required to fund the miners/validators who secure and run the chain. Blockchains don’t work without the cryptocurrency.

And there’s already at least one blockchain purpose-built for naming - https://handshake.org/. Worth reading their design notes on how and why it works as it does.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by mynameisvlad »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #272
eddythompson80 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DNS is good enough for companies, governments, schools, organizations, military etc. Not to mention that most other identities are tied to a DNS identity of some sort. Sure it’s not ideal as something completely trust less and distribute like PGP, but it’s been 33 years and no one can come up with a decent UX for that because it’s not really possible. $8 a year is a barrier to entry, especially if you consider people…

No it is not. It is the easiest way for a country to block as MiTM is not only possible, it is the expected way of how DNS operate. I think it is not very common in US (as of now) that the government censors using DNS, but it is very popular in countries like India. And if you take 1000s of judges of different ideologies who could do it, I would rather put my trust in Google that they won't mistakenly ban my account.

The possibility of being MitM (or really anything else to do with connecting or blocking the site) has nothing to do with the point the parent comment was trying to make, which is that DNS names very much are used as identities by many companies and organizations.

Entire brands are built around domain names, and even when not, they’re extremely common in advertising for most brands. To the tune of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars spent to acquire the right domain name.

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