@atomicpoet @davidslifka @fediversenews @identity So regarding naming and identities:
In my humble opinion it should be possible for some future version of the fediverse to not rely on DNS and not rely on central authorities for identity verification
There is this draft for nostr:
https://github.com/newinternetlabs/nips/blob/nostr-names/69.mdGnunet has gns:
https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.htmlNLnet is supporting namecoin:
https://nlnet.nl/project/namecoin/As far as I understand all three can be used in a decentralized way without having to trust some authority.
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