@xianc78 @Tadano @xianc78 in a perfect world...

@Tadano @sjw Be warned that if you use a VPN, Tor, or proxy then you automatically use their DNS settings, no matter what your local DNS settings are. The OpenNIC website does have a proxy for browsing OpenNIC sites last time I checked.

Also, I think @ryo tried to purchase an OpenNIC domain for his site but he couldn't find anyone to buy from.

The GNU Project also has their own DNS root now.
https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html

@xianc78 @xianc78 @Tadano @ryo most VPN software allows you to override the DNS settings provided by the server

@xianc78 @Tadano @sjw I could register a .libre address for free, except it didn't work.
Every other TLD registration page is forever dead.
So I guess OpenNIC is just a dead project, more excited to see how GNU Net will turn out to be now.

@ryo @Tadano @sjw The only OpenNIC site I ever knew of was some really obscure imageboard that was just one of the many bunkers after the original 8chan shutdown. It never caught on because nobody could figure out how to configure their DNS settings, even though most modern OSes (including Windows) allows you to easily change your main DNS server in the control panel.

OpenNIC has been around since 2000, but it was always obscure. I think people never saw the need for it because darknets have been around for the same amount of time and pretty much served the same purpose, but were and are superior options.

@xianc78 @Tadano @sjw Just about everything actually good originates from around 2000 is you think about it.
OpenNIC, Tor, I2P, XMPP, it's almost as if they could see the writing on the wall, and produced the last bits of software to avoid all the dystopian crap we're seeing being produced today.

@ryo @Tadano @sjw Tor was created by the US military, so I doubt there were actually good intentions behind it even if it is useful.

Maybe there were, like them being able to communicate with one other without the rest of the world watching.
Then it got leaked and now it's public domain blablabla, I don't know the details, so it's basically a theory I just came up with.

@xianc78 @Tadano @sjw @ryo