I guess this is the thing about AP or just mastodon; a company/product/project has to go through the same 'route' that a person would when building their identity in this space. Like even with @blackaf; I'd prefer it to be at something like black.af/social or what not
It comes down to people, right? Do I want to take the time to invest in launching my own server or find one I may be able to trust and save some work. Though, I get your argument. It's like owning a franchise of McDonalds, but only ever eating soylent. Shouldn't keybase be living by example?
You know, I feel like there's a bigger issue at play, internet speeds in North America. Perhaps we wouldn't have to offload so much work to servers if we had speeds that other countries do. Of course, we (as in large NA companies) make it work, collecting data from the users on the servers, again slowing things down more.
I see it as another attempt to court "open source" folks - they have an issue open where they are super resistant to releasing their server-side code and have made no comment on decentralization ideas.
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in reply to https://v2.jacky.wtf/ • •Ted Gould
in reply to https://v2.jacky.wtf/ • •I think if AP does catch on businesses will use their own DNS for their accounts.
It is basically what the Twitter checkmark was originally designed for, so that you can verify that they match up with the official site.
I imagine at some point having $brand@m.s will be purely for parody accounts.
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in reply to https://v2.jacky.wtf/ • •Though, I get your argument. It's like owning a franchise of McDonalds, but only ever eating soylent. Shouldn't keybase be living by example?
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in reply to https://v2.jacky.wtf/ • •Danny Martinez
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