I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

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      There are authorityless blockchain-backed name registration services. In general, it is important whether you can localize a resource. If you can easily find it, the name doesn’t have to human-readable.

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        if its not human readable, how will people know its the place they want to go to? I don’t think bookmarked onionsites is a particularly good idea

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          In order to find content, we used to have webrings, directory services, and then search engines. Most people don’t enter URLs by hand.