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@homegrown@social.growyourown.servicesI don't think it's useful to focus on imperfections when there are much worse situations out there?
The aim of this account is to encourage people off centralised services like Facebook, Google etc.
I don't think problems in the domain system are a good reason to stay on centralised services.
The "fun" part of the original post was the fun of choosing the name for your own server, giving it an identity etc. It's meant to be lighthearted, less stressful.
If we worry about the drawbacks of everything, we will never improve anything.
Every medicine ever made has potential side-effects, but medical treatment when you're ill is still a good idea.
As long as a solution improves things, and if there's no better alternative, then that is the solution to go for.
My point would be rather that there has been a lack of "improvement" and no solution to solving this particular concrete problem, which I don't think needs vague analogies to be understood::
How to host decentralised communications services over which one has maximum control and minimal exposure to a 3rd party's ability to effect DoS. (for whatever reason)
BTW. Totally support what you want to do, as I said, no desire for a discussion over this to get antagonistic.
Of course DNS is not a reason to use corporate internet value extraction services! There's no question of that.
I'd still object to promotion of the virtual real estate game on DNS as "fun". It's not fun. "owning" or "choosing", then "needing" your own dot whatever is a stupid idea that has been promoted since the dawn of the commercial internet, because it's extremely lucrative, and it promotes unsavoury practice like domain squatting for example.
I think saying DNS is "fun" is a little like saying that the "A" in ADSL (and paying through the nose for upload bandwidth from your domestic ISP, if you can get it) is "fun".
Granted, in many parts of the world the asynchronous bandwidth is not such a problem as it was a few years ago when a domestic ISP wanted your 1st born for more than 128k Uplink.
I think i remember being told to get on facebook, it's fun. 
You might have a point though, maybe lying to people is justified when you are trying to cure them from dangerous addictions 
I was going to write up a list of alternative ideas, then I found this post. It'll do as my closing argument: https://medium.com/geekculture/fixing-the-broken-web-alternatives-to-dns-and-the-web-3-0-3adc3ef3f620
albeit hosted on a dns dependent, social media related, content monetising platform.