Paul Chambers🚧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gts.nyquil.org/@nyquildotorg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nyquildotorg</span></a></span> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> and <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> needs a mechanism where domain names can be recycled. The fact that WordPress alone has no mechanism to allow a domain to exit the fediverse is reason enough. Sometimes servers get bricked and there is no way to go back and self-destruct. </p><p>Domains could be validated with a text record in the DNS by the owner of the domain name. If text record ActivityPubKill is true, then it should be trusted as so and defederated. </p><p>I'm not sure how this could be done, I don't know the ins and out. Maybe software packages could poll the DNS of failing federated servers and look for a universal or software specific kill tag or a file could be placed somewhere on a server that it looks for when a server fails, esp after 7 days. </p><p>Either way, a dns entry or a file on a physical server can be a trusted source as it takes elevated permission by someone in charge of a domain to usually do such a thing. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>