ch4m30
jacquelines ๐no centralised social network could ever produce "the taliban deleted my account". that's a mastodon special.
Koutsie 
@jacqueline i'd love some context lmao
edit: i have gotten the context lmao
John Francis@jacqueline ha! How did they know? I guess it's throwing themselves off a tall building then.
acb@jacqueline @jwz though given that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund is investing a lot in โtechโ (i.e., consumer-focused, surveillance-capitalist apps), weโll probably get close soon
Luca Sironi (da chiudere)@jacqueline hope they managed to migrate all user to a new server with a different tld
Jaap Zeldenrust (he/him)@luca
The server is fine, the Afghan government (that would be the Taliban) just removed the domain registration.
I'm sure this will result in some people dropping off that particular community, and some dropping off fedi entirely, but the technical side should be relatively straightforward.
And while the disruption of communication is annoying and probably actually a real problem for some of the people on queer.af, it's also quite funny.
Yeah, i got the dns point, i migrated a personal instance myself. If they want they could register a new temporary server on another domain and do accounts migration for all their userbase. It's a pity to loose a community for such a trivial reason
enmodo โ๏ธ ๐งฌ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐@luca @jozeldenrust migrating accounts losses post history. Is there really no way to keep post history with same instance new domain name?
Matt Palmer@jacqueline @jwz "why vanity ccTLDs are a terrible choice, no matter how cool they look", part 387 in an infinite series.
spv
Samantaz Fox@spv @womble @jacqueline @jwz Like any ccTLD, unless you live there, you'd better keep an eye on politics in that country, and prepare to fly elsewhere if things start to get spicy.
In your case, Saint-Helena has been under control of the British Crown for quite a while, so it should be stable.
@spv @jacqueline @jwz well, *I* wouldn't register a .sh domain, since your fees go to a company that also profits from the .io ccTLD, which is... well, "problematic" is putting it lightly. https://web.archive.org/web/20200314085443/gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/ https://theconversation.com/how-the-us-and-uk-worked-together-to-recolonise-the-chagos-islands-and-evict-chagossians-177636
@womble @jacqueline @jwz *heavy sigh*
35 fucking dollars a year
i mean i love my domain but 35 goddamn motherfucking cocksucking dollars a year for an internet name
@jacqueline for anyone intensely curious, I've written a whole blog on why, exactly, vanity ccTLDs are a terrible choice: https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/02/13/not-all-tlds-are-created-equal.html
Devourer@jacqueline What did I miss lmao
แดฎแตโฟ แดฟแตสธแถแตVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESLesson:
Don't use the .af domain for anything.
"{Adjective}.as f***" is funny but misogynist homophobic theofascists have no sense of humor
Jennifer@benroyce @jacqueline eew. I really like that we can block whole domains.
jamespthomas@jacqueline or was it the nieghborhood thugs?
Cassandrich@jacqueline It's kinda amazing to me how the internet has normalized buying/using ccTLDs without even minimal research into the laws, politics, and even basic stability of the countries they belong to...
Dawn Tรฅke ๐ 
@dalias
When they first got it, it was still the US-backed government in Afghanistan. Still not great, but a fuckload better than the current government.
When they first got it, it was still the US-backed government in Afghanistan. Still not great, but a fuckload better than the current government.
Lars Marowsky-Brรฉe ๐ท@jacqueline It really isn't. Nations censoring Internet content and enforcing their often puritanical views has been the US's and China's Thing for decades at this point.
Joe Vinegar@larsmb @jacqueline that's a very interesting point! can you refer to specific cases? asking for a friend.
@joe_vinegar @jacqueline I mean, SESTA/FOSTA/PATRIOT plus the semi-monopols of the credit card processors have been harming sex workers and in generally queer/kinky folks for decades at this point.
Erik Uden ๐ฉ@jacqueline no, but centralized social networks can produce โI was sentenced to death thanks to the site's ownersโ
Erik Uden ๐ฆฃ๐:coffefied: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image A man in Saudi Arabia has been [sentenced to death for his tweets](https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-silent-man-sentenced-death-his-tweets-1823779), and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that **the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal**. Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your โfreedom of speech!!โ argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of โyourโ platform.
Kern@jacqueline I can't believe Taylor Swift has done this
Mary@jacqueline I'm so confused... What's the context?
spork (pathetic girlfailure)@mary queer.af's domain name got taken down
2xfo
Sky Rose ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ (they/them)@mary @jacqueline The mastodon server queer.af had to shut down because they used the ccTLD of Afghanistan, which is now administered by the Taliban, and they're cracking down on queer stuff.
Stefan Schmidt@jacqueline @isotopp Not true, if the centralized service were to be run in Afghanistan it could or likely would happen and they did not delete an account they deleted the whole domain registration. Also afaik this thing is called fediverse not mastodon i admit that i did not google it though. Pun intended.
@jacqueline oh christ, what did i miss? lmfao
nexon409@jacqueline i kinda feel bad for them too
Charismatic BatmanOkay, I'm dying to know the context behind this toot ๐คฃ
@jacqueline
I was reading recently that these cute urls that use country codes are both inappropriate and stupid.
This one was especially stupid.
โ๐ป๐จ๏ธ@jacqueline I truly love this site
Nathan Schneider@jacqueline wow this is inspiring me to switch away from a national subdomain controlled by an increasingly fundamentalist government.
punIssuer@jacqueline because if they had jurisdiction, they would have deleted the whole service?
@jacqueline Taliband ๐ธ
paul
wikiyu@jacqueline centralised social networks likes other way: we deliver your data to government so they can put you into prison/grave
Luis Villa
Andy Fletcher@jacqueline it is always DNS. Same in this case :)
Jesse Atkinson@jacqueline @jwz I lack context. Any info on what this is referencing? ๐
Tom 
@jacqueline I found a public exposed ip camera with an added heading that said "you have been hacked by isis"
always tired (moved to chaos)@jacqueline Perhaps it was a mistake to use domain names as unchangeable identifier for servers and accounts.
llewelly@jacqueline
I am guessing this is about someone who chose a server with a .af ccTLD and has fallen on hard times. I'm sorry to hear that, and I hope they only lost their account, but:
the difference between the taliban and elon musk is that one of them is a white guy with a major rocket company and the enabling trust of the USA military establishment.
emberquill 
@llewelly @jacqueline it was queer dot af who lost their domain. They knew it was coming (have known for months) and even planned on decommissioning the instance in a couple months before their domain registration came up for renewal. It just happened a bit earlier than expected.
They only lost the domain, not the servers themselves, so no lost data. Thanks to some clever work by their admins and a few others, I think they even managed to get everyone's accounts migrated to other instances after the domain went dark.
gavinisdie 
@jacqueline the people over at queer.af got tali-banned
Martin Hamilton@jacqueline Tired: Fedi HOA
Wired: "Mastodon Taliban"
Wired: "Mastodon Taliban"
The Turtle@jacqueline "Yoda ate my balls" preceded any social media network. We hacked that shit out in Notepad.
~Tilde #Gartenzaun
Ken Kinder 
Hippo ๐@jacqueline look they've quoted you!!! ๐
https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-breaking-mastodon-instance/
@badrihippo virality is so interesting to me, partly bc of this. in what other context would a journalist quote someone without even attempting attribution?
@jacqueline virality of your post, you mean? Or of the Fediverse itself?
Yeah it's weird how they didn't make any mention of it. Whereas if it was on a certain other social media platform they'd go ahead and put an actual embed, despite that being at the risk of disappearing off the face of the Earth without advance notice ๐๏ธ
@badrihippo posts in general! i think itโs really interesting the specific ways in which jokes and takes and all sorts of things will be pilfered from social media, yet as a whole the medium gets pretty disrespected.
@jacqueline hmm, like "I overheard it in public so it's up for grabs"?
Just realised I must've seen it before, but it doesn't usually register because I'm not on any social media besides the Fedi! All those "this is what people are talking about on TikTok" articles have to also be quoting actual people from somewhere ๐ฎ
The passive voice in this case takes it to the next level though! 