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0 pointsthroaway9201817mo ago0 comments

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

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It's definitionally the correct domain for Simon Tatham's social media. What are you expecting here?

How would the average person know that?

Average person aware of trust on social network / internet - because https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham has a validated link to the author's homepage.

Others - they don't understand the trust anyway, so there prerequisite steps missing before the main question anyway.

jachee7mo ago

So… what would be a trusted domain, for you, then?

zugi7mo ago

Exactly. Which nicely confirms all this by saying:

Latest news

2025-08-14 New website, putty.software

We have a new domain name for the PuTTY website!

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