Do you own an ".io"-domain or intend to? You might want to reconsider and find an alternative. @cariad wrote down the history and facts, and no it's not an easy read: https://www.beep.blog/io/

Thank you for sharing @RyunoKi and @grifferz.

#DomainManagement #HackingEthics #HackingEthik #ethics #decolonialisation

.io considered harmful • beep.blog

The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain’s exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here’s the history and the facts.

@madiko Looks like the author received … unwarranted messages once the link appeared on Hacker News:

https://hachyderm.io/@cariad/111345049800465373

Send hugs?

Cariad Eccleston 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah — not long after it hit HN, I started getting password reset attempts, phishing attempts, photos of dead cats, and… you know. Children. I’m *that* controversial only a couple of times a year. I don’t know how the Internet’s daily targets survive with their sanity intact.

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@RyunoKi @madiko HN keeps being HN, it seems
@me @madiko I dislike it. I mean, I can imagine simpler ways to access a link.