Why does no one talk about ICANN centralization and alternatives like #OpenNic?
or email self hosting.
Freedom Money, Freedom Social, Freedom Hardware, yes. But all these relays and nodes run on .com's
Privacy technologies get a lot of attention, but the step after ones ISP gets very little. With anonymous mesh networks not taking off and with inherent infrastructure limitations, registering a real I.D with an ISP beholden to a state will remain for the forseable future. But after that step in the internet stack ? We should support as libre as possible right ?
nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc
Thoughts ?
For instance, if i want to set up a nostr relay i have to trust a third party at some point, for the TLD. Identity with them is reliant on an email instead of an npub assosiation.
It would be nice to have a server app market like in Umbrel where i can spin up my own Domain after some sort of anti spam measure like a crypto escrow or nostr vouching system.
ICANN appears to have a monopoly, whereas with nostr we can support and promote an alternative default system.
Mostly because ICANN is just a small part of the centralization of domain names. But yes, we talk about it all the time. :)
OpenNic is not that much better. It is also centralized. It's just different overlords.
It's like the PlayStore vs F-Droid. Both are centralized catalogs with their own review process to what and who can be there. Exchanging one for another doesn't solve much.
I see. Thanks !
I appreciate the FOSS and degoogled aspects of f-droid. I am trying to use FOSS as much as possible. When a project is unable to provide an f-droid version or decides to create a separate version, it prompts me to ask why. While still centralized, I feel f-droid is a huge step towards a more free future from the google playstore.
I very much appreciate your Amethyst software. Thank you! It's what I use on my graphene pixel. You've let me know that it's the translations in Amethyst that cannot currently be FOSS, and that that is why there is a separate f-droid version without those translations. I wish that those translations could somehow be FOSS in the future.
Thank you for all you do!
Thank you! On translations, nobody has made a FOSS in-device AI model to translate text in the phone yet. There are services that use FOSS models on servers but while the model is FOSS, the server is not. All that without going through the privacy issue of sending plaintext DMs to a server to translate.
