On Sun, 25 May 2025, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
OK but now you depend on whoever owns the domain you use. You and I have our own but we are strange, viz. the vast majority of Bluesky users who have @something.bsky.app handles.
The DNS handle is only a hailing address. It maps to a public key. Once a connection is established, it is the public key that is the control point.
Well, OK. On the one hand, if the DNS handle goes away, how do people find you in the future? On the other hand, if you are a typical user with lousy backups and you drop your phone in the toilet, how do you get the private key back?
Usable identity systems have manual overrides to recover from failures which make them a lot messier than we would like.
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