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1. j-pb+IO1[view] [source] 2026-02-04 02:40:55
>>crimso+(OP)
Nothing based on DOIs and OCRIDs will ever be properly decentralised.

You need content addressing and cryptographic signatures for that.

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2. tbrown+6U1[view] [source] 2026-02-04 03:30:00
>>j-pb+IO1
Email is pretty decentralized without those things.
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3. j-pb+eW1[view] [source] 2026-02-04 03:49:56
>>tbrown+6U1
And it is infamously insecure, full of spam, and struggles with attachments beyond 10mB.

So thank you for bringing it up, it showcases well that a distributed system is not automatically a good distributed system, and why you want encryption, cryptographic fingerprints and cryptographic provenance tracking.

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