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> This might be interesting, however the number of people interested both
> in non-icann domains and micronations might be, nomen omen, microscopic.
Counterpoint, The person who is young(ish) and activly devliops a functional 
micronation, spending hours on it and the intricate details is the exact same 
person who would also be interested in non ICANN names. Both are geeks who 
obsesses over specific details and like unique democratized systems. also if 
no one uses it, then no one uses it and I only throw away my money. 

> Are they aware of limited access to websites behind openNIC domains? Are
> you sure they understand this is not a clearnet? Do they know that they
> might have to frequently inform their users about the necessity of
> making some settings to get the access to openNIC domains? Do they, and
> you, understand, that a number of users won’t make any effort to do
> anything in this matter?
Personally I dislike the term clearnet in the context, as for me it evokes 
thoughts of the darknet which isn't really what opennic is. It's also not the 
clearnet but i think there needs to be a better word for it haha. Anyway, Yes 
of the few that I have spoken to they understand the differences in it and 
fully accept that it's not "standard" that's why i don't believe many of them 
will ever use the service other than a few announcements and operating a 
mirror site on their specific .micro domain. However if you're running a 
micro nation and only ever use google and youtube then setting up your PC for 
use on openNIC isn't that much different for the end user if they only visit 
their .micro site and others.

I explained it to them more as a mission rather than anything substantive. In 
the same way they make treaties and science pacts it's more symbolic for this 
usecase. Also I gave a decent anology comparing it to Mastodon in it's 
purpose and unique use case.

> The results are far from satisfying. I know about 
> only 2 people who were interested, but imo it was only an oddity for
> them and they do not use it at all.
I will admit I am dissapointed in how quite it is and I do find it an oddity 
but I like it. It ultimatly doesn't affect anything else that i'm doing and I 
can visit .geek sites and also disney+ so there's no real downside to using 
it that I can find. I got into Linux last year because a work colleague 
wouldn't shut up about it and i'm having an amazing time with the OS and 
learning about it. I look at OpenNIC in the same way, It's small, unique, 
barely used but it's fun. And heck if i have fun, that's all that matters :)
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