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Basically, this. Until Tor provides human-readable and -memorable addresses again, I'm considering it a deprecated project. I asked them about it at a talk whe

Basically, this. Until Tor provides human-readable and -memorable addresses again, I'm considering it a deprecated project. I asked them about it at a talk when V3 was first being introduced, and they said they're working on a solution. Since then... ::crickets::

beardog 5y ago
.onion was never very human friendly, i won't deny that v3 is worse in that regard but it wasn't feasible for everyone to generate gems like facebookcorewwwi. Most v2s having only a few vanity bytes at most were arguably unsafe since that allowed phishers to more easily trick users, i know the same applies to v3 This is a very non trivial problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
rank0 5y ago
How could you accomplish this without some sort of registration?
- forgotmypw17 5y ago
  The way it was already accomplished previously: short addresses, which, although not easy, are possible to remember. 16 characters is doable, especially if it starts with 5-8 letters of word(s). 56 characters is not realistic.
  - rank0 5y ago
    I guess to each their own, but I just save onion links to my own vault. I’m not gonna memorize 16-char urls for every service I use.
- beardog 5y ago
  Zookos triangle is hard to solve but arguably has been by projects like namecoin and similar ETH-sphere projects geti2p.net also has community registrars for .i2p domains and includes a built in hosts file of many of the sites, this involves a level of trust in the registries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
  - rank0 5y ago
    Thanks for sharing I’ve never heard of zookos triangle before. I’ve never looked into the crypto token solutions but presumably there’s still an issue of competing projects maintaining their own registries that would allow for domain collisions depending on which solution you use. Are there any in particular you’re fond of?
    - beardog 5y ago
      I don't know enough about the alternatives to namecoin to comment on them - i don't think any of them are used as much as even namecoin was at its height (which was still not much, but at least Wikileaks was using it and OpenNic supported it at one time). ZeroNet still uses it, but ZeroNet is in questionable shape right now. Namecoin had issues with cyber squatting and spam, i would assume any alternatives significantly used would suffer a similar fate.

beardog 5y ago

.onion was never very human friendly, i won't deny that v3 is worse in that regard but it wasn't feasible for everyone to generate gems like facebookcorewwwi. Most v2s having only a few vanity bytes at most were arguably unsafe since that allowed phishers to more easily trick users, i know the same applies to v3 This is a very non trivial problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

rank0 5y ago

How could you accomplish this without some sort of registration?

forgotmypw17 5y ago
The way it was already accomplished previously: short addresses, which, although not easy, are possible to remember. 16 characters is doable, especially if it starts with 5-8 letters of word(s). 56 characters is not realistic.
- rank0 5y ago
  I guess to each their own, but I just save onion links to my own vault. I’m not gonna memorize 16-char urls for every service I use.
beardog 5y ago
Zookos triangle is hard to solve but arguably has been by projects like namecoin and similar ETH-sphere projects geti2p.net also has community registrars for .i2p domains and includes a built in hosts file of many of the sites, this involves a level of trust in the registries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
- rank0 5y ago
  Thanks for sharing I’ve never heard of zookos triangle before. I’ve never looked into the crypto token solutions but presumably there’s still an issue of competing projects maintaining their own registries that would allow for domain collisions depending on which solution you use. Are there any in particular you’re fond of?
  - beardog 5y ago
    I don't know enough about the alternatives to namecoin to comment on them - i don't think any of them are used as much as even namecoin was at its height (which was still not much, but at least Wikileaks was using it and OpenNic supported it at one time). ZeroNet still uses it, but ZeroNet is in questionable shape right now. Namecoin had issues with cyber squatting and spam, i would assume any alternatives significantly used would suffer a similar fate.