Plebbit is a selfhosted, opensource, nonprofit social media protocol, this project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people.
Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.
ENS domain are used to name communities.
Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chanw, andhave a Blog. Plebbit intend to have an app, internet archive, wiki and twitter and Lemmy. Choice is important. The backend/communities are shared across clients.
Imagine you buy a cheap domain name for $0.99 a year from namecheap to be lonefaerie.lol or something
Next year they ask for $19.99 because they can. If you set up an account with that name you can either pay more or have to change accounts
Why can't we just buy domain names for like 30 year periods?
You can. I think ICANN has agreed to limit it to 10 year maximum, to reduce domain squatting, though.
This is a HUGE problem in the IT sector... A lot of folks come up with "new, better, and more agile" systems for core tech, like DNS. What they fail to account for are all the lessons learned, and problems solved over the decades the system has been in use, and fail to understand a lot of the "complications" stem from people being complicated.
That's the problem, I want a personal domain like name.person for the rest of my life. I don't want it to expire and have to pay extortion rates for my email address
So, what you propose just isn't feasible.
Who is the one who gets John Doe? First come, first serve, and never again available?
It doesn't have to be your name. How about everyone gets a random phrase?
magneticdeerflyinginthesea.person
It's much easier to remember than like 7 numbers