Reading @cwebber's discussions about ATProto (https://social.coop/@cwebber/113647109852249805).
She mentioned that email has effectively been converted from a distributed system down to a centralised one. Nothing in the protocol prevented this, and nothing gave us any other effective weapon to combat the abuse by spammers etc.
From what I can see, DNS will be the next system to be captured; already central players like CDNs are 'taking over' DNS responsibility as part of the fight against denial-of-service attacks, and they're not going to give them back. The only advantage is that we have a large ecosystem of rent-seeking registrars, and unless they're going to be enriched by operating DNS, this might not happen quickly ...
But imagine the consequence of "we will only allow DNS resolution from trusted partners - to prevent attackers contacting you, and will only resolve trusted domains for you - to prevent you visiting an attacker's source" ...
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