i hate it when my fedi instance goes down because the domain name got revoked by the FUCKING TALIBAN
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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:
Silly question, but exactly how bad is the loss of the domain name for an instance, on a scale from "every connected instance has to refederate to the new domain" to "instance is toast due to broken auth/certs/etc."?
i'm not certain but cursory research doesn't turn up much specific other than a general impression that It's Fucked and putting it on a new domain breaks all relations (follows, etc)
As I recall the instance was already getting wound down on account of renewing the domain would be funding the Taliban, but users thought they still had a few months left to migrate to new instances.
Everybody did, but the government behind .AF cut off their registrar entirely. So it’s not just queer.af
I think it might be slightly better now?—another friend lost their personal domain but I’m still transparently following their new account.
Edit: I was wrong that friend was actually also on queer.af. So I have seen two people I know successfully migrate after the fact, keeping their follows/following. It looks like the old posts are all gone from feeds though.
yeah, and they instance still has the user account emails so they can notify
is it bad I read this in hbomberguy's "sell them to who Ben? Fuckling Aquaman?" voice
in reply to @eramdam's post:
I love imperialism under the auspices of thumbing one's nose at autocrats. That's what the second gulf war was about I think
seriously tho, like... do people not get that they're grabbing names for puns that people in the host countries then can't claim. Not that afghanistan will allow queer.af locally, but... the other ones?
single word domains especially
sigh.
I'm sad they lost it this way but what a rationale
I regret to inform you that country TLDs experience neocolonialism
i thought about trying to respond to someone dunking on this but. i figured it’s a lost cause. godspeed 🫡
I might be a little blind here but other than specifically targeting queer people, what points to this being the Taliban? The registrars' office is French. There's an old listing associated with Mohammed Jan Khan Watt's name linking to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan but that stopped existing in 2021.
I'm not 100% sure how international DNS addresses work but maybe they just didn't contact the registrars office first?
Alright ignore that one bit I forgot they got recaptured by ISIS. It just has a different name now.
I think I speak for everyone when I say: LOL, and, I hope it is not too presumptuous to add, LMAO. Love to protest the taliban by...giving them money for website
Suffice to say that I believe the world forgot how a pariah country run by a terrorist organization can still do extravagances as domain registry.
I suppose even the left is not immune to the reflex that leads people to buy a case of bud light and then empty every can onto the sidewalk
in 2018 the country was run by… the united states' local definitely-not-imperial government.
corruption is one thing, but this wasn't a case of sanctions violations (funding international terrorism)
Because I don't have a Masto account: Could you pass along that the URL on the main alioth.systems page needs updating? Granted they've probably got bigger things to deal with right now, but just in case they forgor
also is that domain an Elite reference?
i just. i fuckin wish people would take the social infrastructure they run seriously enough to not gamble with it.
that's activitypub baby!
erin did take it seriously, more so than most! it was a well-moderated server, with responsive patching, nice customizations, etc. if I weren't admining an instance of my own, there's a good chance I would've ended up there because the community was good.
taking a .af domain to "thumb the nose to conservative autocrats" still seems like gambling with people's social connections who didn't know that was the case tho