What looks better to you?

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttdrpj45ibqunmfhdsb4zdwq or https://bsky.app/profile/nekomimi.pet

The second right? But are links supposed to be human readable? The second will suffer link rot the moment I decide i don't want to go by that handle anymore. Any references like https://bsky.app/profile/nekomimi.pet/post/3m3yeflczwk23 will die when I do that. But at least it's human readable.

Should we build our web like this? IPFS is advertised a lot (or was, I really have not kept up it) as being an unkillable web. That if someone decides to no longer host their blog, we will still have access to it (of course a massive asterisk being that this is only true if anyone bothered to save a copy.) Their links look like this: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeihkoviema7g3gxyt6la7vd5ho32ictqbilu3wnlo3rs7ewhnp7lly

To say the least, not human readable. The web we have is built on mutable identities. Domains, handles, usernames that all can change ownership, meaning, or disappear entirely. Rot. But must we be so mean to being able to evolve or forget our identities? Lord knows how many identities I've reinvented and forgotten.

Maybe the real question isn't "how do we prevent link rot?" but rather "what kinds of forgetting and evolution should the web allow?"