We'll always have an unbearable amount of centralization in the fediverse as long as we're reliant on DNS and SSL Certificate Authorities to glue it together

@cwebber

DNS is inherently federated though. It only SEEMS centralized because most people don't run their own DNS. We could easily set up a social DNS that uses a different set of tlds (for compatibility with existing DNS) if everyone could agree on how to deal with disputes--and then tell their computers to prefer that DNS.

SSL is a bit harder, but you don't *HAVE* to use external CA. Every instance could be self-signed--though this poses its own problems.

@rdh I'm friends with the main person behind SSL/TLS (Christopher Allen) who was opposed to CAs. There's an alternate system that was in the work called SPKI/SDSI (pronounced "spooky/sudsy"). There are alternate solutions, but they aren't well known because they aren't the ones that took off.