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Re:Show HN: Federalist and Bob – uncensorable website with w... by vorpalhex on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:18PM (#30184197)
Yes but then.. why bother? If you are running your own infrastructure, none of this matters because you have your own infrastructure. Add a new resolver zone, run a tor node, etc etc.
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Re:Show HN: Federalist and Bob – uncensorable website with w... by capableweb on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:21PM (#30184225)
As a start, I'd recommend you to read through https://handshake.org/ and associated documentation if you're interested in understanding how it works.

As a quick answer to your concern, running your own node doesn't mean you can only access your own domains, it'll still be a part of the global handshake network, just via your node instead of via the "hosted backend" you mentioned.

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Re:Show HN: Federalist and Bob – uncensorable website with w... by vorpalhex on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:30PM (#30185017)
Right, I understand how handshake works.

But if you are capable of running a Bob node, you are capable of running bind or whatever dns solution and manually importing a zone file. Or running tor. Or just running a handshake (or any other) resolver.

There is no benefit to this being entangled with bob.

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