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> If you can share those tags (and why not?), now you have decentralized "authorities" for names. Until an indexing service becomes a defacto standard, once ag
by kodablah 9y ago
> If you can share those tags (and why not?), now you have decentralized "authorities" for names.
Until an indexing service becomes a defacto standard, once again making it centralized. This is what I meant about federation (i.e. sharing your name lists) gravitating towards centralization.
> Squatting on previously-unused-in-the-service IRL identities doesn't matter at all.
It does when I can register thousands and thousands of names. This is why it must be too difficult for squatters and not too difficult for users.
- jessaustin 9y agoThere isn't a point to generating thousands and thousands of UUIDs, but it's only the UUIDs that need to be reserved after use. The human-readable names needn't be universal. If too many of your tags point to squatters, then no one will want to share them.