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>Decentralization just puts people that run servers as middle men to further impose a censorship agenda with ActivityPub.

Name lookup is not like a social media feed. If a server is censoring, say, TPB, it's plainly obvious, because you'll go to the IP and not get the content you expected. Just move on to the next server on the list until you find one with the up-to-date information.

>Whatever it is it needs to be distributed like BitTorrent.

DNS is already a distributed system like BitTorrent. When you publish an IP update you do it to a single node, which then propagates through the network. The deplatforming problem of DNS is that name assignment is something only central authorities can grant and revoke.



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