[miki123211]

This story (and many others like it) just goes to show that systems that rely on domains in any way can't be called decentralized.

Email isn't decentralized. Mastodon isn't decentralized. Matrix isn't decentralized. XMPP isn't decentralized. The web certainly isn't either.

All of them can be killed by Safe browsing. All of them can be killed by ICAN (which is under significant influence from the US government). All of them can be killed by their domain registrar and registry operator. All of them can be killed by Let's Encrypt adding their certificates to a CRL, and refusing to issue new ones. All of these will eventually be weaponized, when the war over who controls information truly begins.

[mixmastamyk]

Was just thinking that our workstations should save DNS lookups for our most used domains over time.

[eviks]

> All of them can be killed

> Anyone can be killed, my Lord!

So nothing is decentralized?