@pwm it was pointed out that this isn't really decentralization, what I was referring to is the decoupling of identity and content storage, so like decentralization of concerns. in a sense dns is decentralized because you can have a wide variety of choices where to register and host your name, so it shares some decentralization traits with fediverse. in other ways obviously dns is very centralized as it's controlled by one umbrella organization, and is hierarchical