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So, how do I know about foo.com?

Discoverability and noise filtering are the hard problem.



Absolutely, that's why ever since Lycos and AltaVista we relied on certain third-party domains to solve both discoverability and noise filtering.

However, now, after we, the users, have created such Leviathans [1] as Google, Meta, and so on, we, the developers, must go back to the drawing board and solve discoverability, noise filtering, payments [2], and much more at the protocol level. Which is not even a new or outrageous idea, even Mr. Jack Dorsey seems to agree to this [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)




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