I don't think it's useful to focus on imperfections when there are much worse situations out there?
The aim of this account is to encourage people off centralised services like Facebook, Google etc.
I don't think problems in the domain system are a good reason to stay on centralised services.
The "fun" part of the original post was the fun of choosing the name for your own server, giving it an identity etc. It's meant to be lighthearted, less stressful.
If we worry about the drawbacks of everything, we will never improve anything.
Every medicine ever made has potential side-effects, but medical treatment when you're ill is still a good idea.
As long as a solution improves things, and if there's no better alternative, then that is the solution to go for.
My point would be rather that there has been a lack of "improvement" and no solution to solving this particular concrete problem, which I don't think needs vague analogies to be understood::
How to host decentralised communications services over which one has maximum control and minimal exposure to a 3rd party's ability to effect DoS. (for whatever reason)
BTW. Totally support what you want to do, as I said, no desire for a discussion over this to get antagonistic.
