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Can we make federation less dependent on domain names? (sh.itjust.works)
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It looks like some issues may arise if/when an instance's domain name changes. Is there any way we can change federation so that we don't need to rely on such a central point of failure?

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[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Irc solved this by having list servers domains that give a list of irc servers so instead of having random servers that go down you have a network of distributed servers that work together.

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