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Email is a decentralized service and the task of discovery is solved with DNS. If you have an address, jackalope@example.com, you can find out where to send the
by jackalope 14y ago
Email is a decentralized service and the task of discovery is solved with DNS. If you have an address, jackalope@example.com, 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.
- wdewind 14y agoAnd who runs the DNS servers?
- marshray 14y agoThe 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.
- Sami_Lehtinen 14y agoOr mymail@[127.0.0.1]