There's a phenomenon I observe quite regularly in tech. In the community or content sense? Not so sure. At the end of the day, the core issue is: migrating users is difficult if the benefits are not immediately obvious.Īnd yes, massively adopting anything else would litterally "kill the old web", in the protocol sense.
Of course, point-to-point connections have their weaknesses as well, it might be interesting to migrate to something like beaker browser (html on top of hypercore, formerly DAT, kind of like mutable torrents in a DHT).
One option would be to make signed DNS records over a DHT: the root authority "." signs "com", "net", etc, that sign "ycombinator", etc. It's not like DNS is also our single source of trust nowadays, but at least certificate providers are competent enough to make sure names are resolved correctly. Asking users to type IP addresses isn't really an answer, I think, but I don't know if there's a lot of "basic" users who type URLs in nowadays, they all seem to rely on google providing the right website anyway, or the web browser itself. How to securely link to websites you have never seen? Pet names seem like a way to do so. However, the DNS part remains a hard one. * Every packet is authenticated, every packet can be encrypted * Anyone can generate a new one on-demand It would be much more interesting to replace IP, like Yggdrasil does (and I think gnunet, cjdns, hyperboria & others). not because of the feature, but instead, if I enable it, I'll be cut off from legacy sites by a wall of forever "Do you want to really do this?" with likely 10 clicks of 'yes' and 'ok' and 'i understand', combined with never storing this as a default. My point is, this is going to be annoying. However, the idea that "Firefox knows best" is the sort of asinine behaviour that causes big tech issues all the time. I have zero issues with safer defaults, prompting when required. Yet, do you think I can tell my browser "never ever prompt for this again"? Nope. Why would I spent 10 seconds setting such things up? They're locked behind a firewall, (a secondary firewall), have no direct network access, and can't even be reached without port forwarding via SSH. Going through multiple prompts, each and every time someone wants to do what they want, is problematic. The real and true bothersome part, is that Firefox (and others) do not seem to allow permanent exceptions.
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