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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by salawat on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:51AM (#29046070)
as soon as you create a namespace like that, you've made the lever that will be utilized for centralized control. In reality, if you had no chance of getting somewhere without the centralized registry, you don't have the connection.
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by _carbyau_ on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:30PM (#29087642)
What I am proposing is an extension to DNS to allow individuals to find each other directly rather than having to go through middlemen like FB etc to simply message each other.

DNS already exists as a point of centralised control. Service Providers already have to log IP vs user accounts.

don't see how extending DNS for the masses could make things any worse.

As a sibling comment points out though, who pays to run it?

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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday October 30, 2021 @01:07AM (#29046138)
Don't Tor onion services basically work like that already?
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