Comment by irusensei

Comment by irusensei 5 days ago

I have some feedback for OP: my personal website got 92% because there is a link to my X profile in the contact session. It's not like it relies on the service. Its just a contact and there are also links to other services such as self hosted matrix.

On the other hand my registrar is Namecheap which is in the US and your tool didn't checked for that. I think thats a lot more important in terms of dependance than a link to a social network so you could run a whois lookup to check what registrar is hosting that domain.

sjamaan 5 days ago

Good point regarding registrar. Thinking a bit further, there's also the top-level domain: if that's under US control (eg .com), it could still be yanked away from you.

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jacquesm 5 days ago

This is a massive risk that will affect half the internet or so.

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- _blk 5 days ago
  
  .onion might be exempt but while the TLD "." is anycast worldwide for the actual DNS service, Verisign still signs the cert. Isn't that a show-stopper for dependencies on dns-over-https or https altogether or do .cn, .ru, .ir etc all add/replace with their own independent signatures ?
  
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cmkr 5 days ago

1. Link to X profile ≠ dependency on X. Will differentiate links from embeds in v0.2.

2. Registrar check is a good thinking. Already have some stubs in the codebase. Namecheap is US and could theoretically be compelled. Adding to roadmap.

Thanks!

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esmIII 5 days ago

If you post on X. You are a content creator supporting Elon.

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Etheryte 5 days ago

While this is true, it has nothing to do with the tech sovereignty of the site itself.

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- pixl97 5 days ago
  
  While I'd say you're mostly correct, I do disagree some.
  There is quite a large issue with sites posting things like current events on social sites like Facebook, or other rapid news events on X. Doing this has the potential to diminish your sovereignty. For example if you tell your users to follow X on the site and you're posting some event that Musk doesn't like, maybe you're posts will disappear.
  Is something to think about.
  
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  carlosjobim 5 days ago
  
  It's absolutely not something to think about, unless you are in some kind of cult.
  This website is also foreign to Europeans, so what are you then doing here contributing with your comments?
  It is probably time for Europeans to start dealing with their problems in different ways than having internal "purity purges". It has never worked, and will never work. It makes people weak and easily defeated in every endeavor.
  
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