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1. jec (jec@social.alesan.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 16:45:19 UTC jec

   • James Harris
   @DawnPaladin I want to run my own server, and I actually paid quite a sum (because of dollar to local currency excjange) to register the domain and get a DNS service... So yeah. It's a pretty stupid statement
   
   Also while I'm torn on whether to set up Matrix or Jabber for a personal chat server, someone I know actually opted it for the stable and dependables Jabber, and hosts it in Raspberry PI.
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   • Olivier Forget (teleclimber@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 01:17:01 UTC Olivier Forget

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     • James Harris

     @jec @DawnPaladin You bring up a very important point: DNS is a big problem. Domain names are inherently scarce and therefore expensive. This adds to the already large burden of self-hosting.

     It's a big reason why people end up with big-social-site.com/@my-username: because it's free.

     We should ask ourselves how this can be addressed (heh). How important is it to have a globally unique human-readable name online? Pretty much none of us have unique given name + family name, yet we manage fine.

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