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I thought this was a cool idea so I tried to add a mailbox with an emoji username to my protonmail account - no bueno. Invalid username. Boo!
You should never go full emoji. It is supported in far less places than the domain alone is.
This sounds like a subplot of a Neal Stephenson story from back in the day.
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I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation, it's mostly useless fluff. I don't miss it on HN, so I disagree with your use of "reduced" here. :)
> I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation Proceeds to add an ascii emoji
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The whole point is to NOT HAVE “a person with the private keys” to the entire database. Each participant should be able to take only the actions as themselves, and affect a small part of the network. In aggregate they together effectuate the evolution of the network. That is exactly the point — that we need blockchain software for entire communities rather than individuals! Look at https://intercoin.org/applications
How does that help the organisation (community) manage their single domain? For example: who controls the intercoin.org domain? I'm quite sure it's a combination of trust and hierarchy and as fallback a society with laws and lawyers and law-enforcement. Which, IMO is "good enough" for nearly all situations.
You know, in every OTHER technology, that’s how it was before we automated things that humans previously did. You may as well have said this about telephone switchboard operators, or tying up the line, until VoIP brought the costs to zero. “Who connects your calls? I’m quite sure paying $1 a minute was good enough for nearly all situations.” Except, when it all got automated and the providers turned into dumb hubs because open protocols eliminated the middleman. Where are these phone providers today? They provide the infrastructure only, and we route around problems. Same with blockchain.
Paying someone exorbitant amounts to “maintain your domain” because it is famous, and a hosting company to “handle spikes in traffic” etc. All that results in the need to extract rents from the ecosystem in ever-more-toxic ways, using toxic forms of capitalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
But it gets worse than that. The externalities to our society of the profit protive and private ownership of public forums are immense, including widespread depression, tribalism evho cham and national anger reaching a fever pitch. All predictable. Take a look at exactly how it works:
LAWeekly published an article recently about the steps I and my company have been taking for the several years to fix it:
https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/
Again, Web3 and blockchain is one possible way to do it but the keys to all the solutions are decentralization and open protocols! They remove the middlemen and oligopolies (like phone companies used to be, or the original AOL/MSN walled gardens) by making an alternative system not owned by anybody and with no single points of failure or control by a few people:
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-worldwide-web-ne...
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Your domain name and the site it points to is not the end goal, what the site represents is. Your domain name is one of the means to get more people to know about you or to deliver your product. Decreasingly relevant, note, as no one types domain names usually (people search). As more people know about you via various channels (most centralized one way or the other: curated lists, social platforms, search), takeover…
You have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to justify why web3 is not needed. Here you literally argue that one’s brand name recognition is irrelevant, and you can be constantly moving domain names with no impact to your bottom line or your community. That requires more than just an assertion. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
You argued that.
I argue the opposite: brand name recognition is what matters.
(And believe me, I am not the only one who makes that point and I certainly am not even remotely smart enough to have come up with it first.)
A domain name is merely one of the many things that may help you reach that recognition. These things evolve; domain names are less meaningful these days—an Instagram username runs circles around one—and all of those things are less critical the more recognition you achieve.
“If Coca-Cola were to lose all of its production-related assets in a disaster, the company would survive. By contrast, if all consumers were to have a sudden lapse of memory and forget everything related to Coca-Cola, the company would go out of business.” If you have your shiny domain name, but no one knows about you, you are as good as dead. If everyone knows about you, and your domain name gets taken over, you can’t really care less.
Wait, aren't emojis explicitly prohibited from being used in IDNA? Or do the implementers just not bother to read the "IDNA Rules and Derived Property Values" table and simply allow anything that's a correct punycode?
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Also found a comment from myself warning of using this anywhere near Germany (tldr kz stands for concentration camp). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423117
As a German speaker, first association when reading the title of this post. "Uuuuh, that does not fly in Germany."
>> Turns out emoji domain names score very highly for spam and were going to be blocked to high heaven. I turns out their mailbox.ws domain doesn't have SPF or good DKIM records. Might be part of the problem why google chucks it. Email is a shit show. I feel like getting emails out reliably is akin to black magic now. Without the right incantations your never going to know what happened or why.
You're right though, email is still a shit show, it's particularly annoying that they've made so many over-complicated auth schemes based on centralized and insecure-as-a-rule root tech(DNS), and never phase any out. When it's easier to configure postfix than domain identity, you know something is wrong.