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> and there are substantial inconvenience obstacles to hosting your own server

I think one of the biggest problems is DNS.

Until there is an ubiquitous decentralized name resolution protocol there is not much of a point in running your own server on a host that changes IPs every now and then.




Dyndns has been a thing for years. It's not particularly hard to set up, but it's just another thing you need to configure. And I suppose it's an external dependancy.

(Decentralised protocols run quickly into "Zooko's triangle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle )


I said "decentralized name resolution protocol" for the very reason that I anticipated someone bringing up dyndns.

DNS is quite centralized with its registrars and the DNS root.




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