[howieburger]

Government will just hijack the domain as they have with torrents and other things they don't like

Am working on a mobile app that requires in person keygen/sharing via Bluetooth, syncs selected data between devices once keys exchanged and new local IP is shared (over something like Signal; discovery is hard/expensive so I am going with a low tech manual option to notify peers how to reconnect)

Flood the field with alternatives to keep The Man on his toes and distracted.

The main problem with hyper normalized and streamlined society is it just makes it easier for The Man to spot and squash dissent. What is dissent when the people are peacefully not following orders by making passive surveillance difficult.

[hedora]

That sounds like a nice setup for decentralization.

I've long thought people should just fork DNS. This already sort of happens with ad blocking commercial services, but I'm thinking it might be time for something that runs over a mix network, where devices have multiple trust roots for DNS services, and run a quorum computation when there's disagreement.

Ideally, disagreements between the roots could be escalated to a web browser UI.

[subscribed]

It's forked since..... at least mid-90's? Not that the alternatives have any real reach.

[K0balt]

While I’m down with the spirit of your idea, What keeps your app from being banned on the App Store as well?

As an unbannable alternative, Make the web app trivially hostable, and use IPFS as a data backend maybe?

[financetechbro]

Would love to learn more about this once it’s ready