Can someone explain how the "core features" would work ?

How/Why is this linked to a TLD and not a hosting provider ?

Feels like putting a flag on yourself that you are an easier target (security vulnerabilities, ddos, etc.)

481 upvotes on HN, and only $136 USD donated (out of $64k target) -- at the time of writing.

Given the amount of traffic this project has received by being at the top of the front page for half a day, one has to wonder if a different approach to soliciting donations would have yielded them more money.

Clearly, everyone here is at least interested in the idea of a .self domain, and I wager that most (even the naysayers) of the commenters would register theirs.

Imagine if instead of asking for a $15–125 donation behind a CTA, they asked for $2 to "pre-register" your domain (with higher tiers for more benefits). I have a feeling they would have raised a lot more money...

Just use cloudflare with static hosting for things like this. Doesn’t load for me.

A free tunnel would be a dream. This would be a great initiative.

I’m very confused. This is a web page with an embedded single-page PDF (!?) that gives zero details about how the project would work, be funded, or even look like. What is there to even discuss? Nothing about this seems very “human centered” to me.

Seems that my.self is already taken. Moving right along, then ...

Wanted to find out more but it looks to be down. Unfortunate.

Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers

The problem I see with those initiatives is that there are 8 billions of us, and for most us, there are uncountable persons with the same name.

And do we really want another public identity anchor given the increasingly signs of a rise on government control and authoritarism?

What I dream of is an identity schema where your identity is context based, your friends can easily locate your game server, the IRS knows the stuff it legally can know about you, but it couldn't easily trace you as a taxpayer to you journalist or political blogger, even if you had a patreon or a substack and received money from supporters, the IRS can tax that money, but it can't link it to your anarchist blog.

Yeah, a pipe dream, I know. But, can we really keep on living on this world without dreaming a bit?