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Re:Tent v0.1 by jackalope on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:18PM (#4556182)
Email is a decentralized service and the task of discovery is solved with DNS. If you have an address, [email protected], you can find out where to send the message if it is explicitly set (MX record) or not (A record). I don't see why you can't do the same with a decentralized social network.
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Re:Tent v0.1 by wdewind on Saturday September 22, 2012 @10:55AM (#4557958)
And who runs the DNS servers?
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Re:Tent v0.1 by marshray on Saturday September 22, 2012 @06:22PM (#4559196)
The most popular ones are run by IANA, ICANN, and Verisign.

But nothing stops most of us in the free world from choosing an alternative root system. Other than the support cost of a minor config change in our OS or application software.

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Re:Tent v0.1 by Sami_Lehtinen on Sunday September 23, 2012 @02:55AM (#4560248)
Or mymail@[127.0.0.1]
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