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Re:Centralization Is Inevitable by bombcar on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:20PM (#33426082)
There are a very few alternate roots that have actually gotten traction - the most famous of which is .onion
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Re:Centralization Is Inevitable by dinosaurdynasty on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:40PM (#33430461)
.onion is weird in that it isn't actually DNS; it doesn't support DNS records (like A, SRV, TXT, etc) and applications that use it don't use DNS to connect to things behind onion services.
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