I hope the situation where setting up a fediverse instance on a domain "burns" that domain forever gets rectified at some point. I would really like to just use my nyquil.org hostname, but still be able to change platforms at some point. For now I used gts.nyquil.org, assuming that I'm probably going to eventually want to play with bonfire or iceshrimp.NET or some other platform, and can have them all running on their own subdomains until a time when I want to migrate to one of them.
@nyquildotorgJer #Mastodon and #ActivityPub needs a mechanism where domain names can be recycled. The fact that WordPress alone has no mechanism to allow a domain to exit the fediverse is reason enough. Sometimes servers get bricked and there is no way to go back and self-destruct.
Domains could be validated with a text record in the DNS by the owner of the domain name. If text record ActivityPubKill is true, then it should be trusted as so and defederated.
I'm not sure how this could be done, I don't know the ins and out. Maybe software packages could poll the DNS of failing federated servers and look for a universal or software specific kill tag or a file could be placed somewhere on a server that it looks for when a server fails, esp after 7 days.
Either way, a dns entry or a file on a physical server can be a trusted source as it takes elevated permission by someone in charge of a domain to usually do such a thing. #MastoDev #MastoAdmin
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