alt Hacker NewsI’d also call out that activitypub has the same threat model in the form of ICANN, as it’s also heavily dependent on DNS for identity. I believe these are reasonable trades to make; realistically the alternative is to use a blockchain, which few people are keen to do.
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kuschku • yesterday at 3:47 PM
Not necessarily – there are some activitypub instances without hostname, directly on IP addresses, and there are even some running in private DNS roots.
ATProto has both PLC and ICANN
ICANN is a severe risk btw. Current new protocols should be designed to avoid DNS wherever possible.