I was struggling to wrap my head around how federated social media works until I realized that email has basically been doing the same thing for 30 years. Different email servers are like instances of a federated network. You can send emails to people from within a single server or you can send emails to people on any other mail server. Your email address is a username followed by an ‘@’ and the server address, just like on Lemmy. Email is a decentralized service I’ve been using the whole time!

    • jerkface@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Fair. It’s not the same but the tools are there. Anyone can set up their own root servers. All that’s needed is a way for people to conveniently opt in / stop visiting Reddit.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      Definitely agree.

      Domains not resolving is probably one of the quicker problems to solve (switch the DNS server) compared to other issues with custom TLDs imo…

      I was looking at OpenTLD, and was mostly put off by the need to install their SSL root certificate for secure access to their custom TLDs, on every device. That’s a lot of effort just for some custom domains, which can only be accessed by other OpenTLD users anyway 😟