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Caleb James DeLisle on Nostr: Okay so assuming everybody adopts everything, Mastodon included - what we end up with ...

Okay so assuming everybody adopts everything, Mastodon included - what we end up with here is a name per-gateway...

Cynics will say "why don't you just use a boost-bot?"

My concern is more like:
Is anybody going to ACTUALLY run a node in Tor/I2P/etc if every user on that node needs to go register to get syndicated on some gateways?

Admins don't generally want to give out accounts like candy because it's a spam vector and it damages their server's reputation, so registering on a gateway is probably never going to be entirely API/seamless...

So if you need to register on gateways anyway, well, why not just make your account there... So I'm afraid that human behavior would converge on just doing what we're doing already...

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Zooko's Triangle is a bitch, no doubt about it. And to the extent we're trying to protect the global nature of a name, it's something we've got to solve.

SLUFI's answer is to make somebody else's name system do the heavy lifting, and then solve an "easier" version of Zooko's Triangle using the WoT. It's easier because at this point because the network is talking about facts, either mysite.bit exists or it doesn't, so if two nodes disagree then one is lying...