queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban
queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban
The admin stated they won't be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
Quite an emotive title for "domain name not renewed"
-"Killed! Killed I'd say!"
I got scared for a second, yeah
True, though.
But is there seriously no support for changing the domain? Why? Would it require retiring references on posts or something to do with federation?
as they said in the post: "Because fediverse software does not support domain migrations".
(by "fediverse software" they actually mean the ActivityPub protocol.)
Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be picking domains based on stuff like "hehe it says queer as fuck lul"? What did they expect to happen picking Afghanistan of all places for the domain of an LGBT instance?
funny as shit
I am even surprised that the Taliban let someone buy the queer.af domain.
But it's also a cool feature of the federation, an instance is closed by an authoritarian government, tons of others are still there, and migration is easy, so you don't loose you whole network. Still an annoyance for the user, but not as much an annoyance as when a centralized social media closes.
They bought it before the Taliban got the .af domain.
Permanently Deleted
Just as an aside: unfortunately some of the Taliban are actually very smart - in an academic sense. Some of them have gone to the best schools and universities our world has to offer… and then decided the dark ages are where we should be. Go figure. But, to clarify, they aren’t all backwards goat herders from the middle of nowhere.
This is not something to blame Taliban for. Mali government was also keen on taking down .ml instances of Lemmy. This is simply a legal and reasonable reservation of country TLD domains.
they could become queer 'for real' unless macron gets a tumor
That's kinda funny
Rare taliban w
rip to a real one. this is our 9/11
I know we’re talking about a time before a lot of young adults were born, but comparing the closure of a federated instance to what happened to a lot of people and families on 9/11 is actually pretty fucked up.
Edit: Alright. Apparently some atrocities are okay because other atrocities happen, too. Love you guys.
What's the difference between 9/11 and a cow?
You stop milking the cow after a decade.
During the COVID pandemic we decided a 9/11 every day was fine, that has consequences.
I did not think I needed an /s but I guess I did
Americans have no sense of perspective. I have friends who were affected by the tower collapse in NY. We sent more service members to die looking for Bin Laden than were killed that day. And more than 10 times a many people die from gun violence in the US every God damned year than died in all four plane strikes. And every one of those other tragedies destroys families and communities.
It’s so overblown it’s practically a meme to everyone but the boomers and Christian “patriots” who need a way to make people angry about foreigners so they can ignore our home grown violent tendencies.
There's also the fact the event reference happened in 'murica. People don't really take 'murica seriously.
9/11 has been so overblown. Literally, with the bombing of middle eastern people when the US government used it as an excuse to attack an uninvolved country... such that most people think of it as a joke now.
Also with what the other person said regarding COVID. I personally cannot take that event seriously anymore. In fact, I see anyone who complains about it having to be taken seriously as overprivelaged... Yes, really.