The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban
Submitted 4 months ago by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
iso@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
Marsupial@quokk.au 4 months ago
If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
that’s why australia has their army of spiders
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 months ago
[deleted]iso@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Yeah that’s true. We just need to research who owns the TLD before long-term site and everything is ok.
nintendiator@feddit.cl 4 months ago
Better to just setup your own ccTLD, for maximum trust.
(honestly only half joking)
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
.io is the British Indian ocean’s territory probably not really a risk i doubt anything’s going to happen there.
radix@lemm.ee 4 months ago
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
iso@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Nope. The ones you’re mentioned are gTLD (generic top-level domain) but most of the other domains are generic TLD too. See here for the list: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom…
Just don’t use country-code TLDs because they can removed by those countries. For example fmhy.ml and now queer.af.
Carighan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just use queeraf.net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so queeraf.fi or .de or .us or whatever. TLDs aren’t just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for “funny” combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 months ago
Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 months ago
So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
If you’re on the country code, you open yourself up to risk.ml has been a risk before.
Your headline is misleading. Taliban didn’t kill it. Admin did.
victorz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Such a heinous click bait, I’m inclined to down vote the post. Definitely misleading af.
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If the Taliban never got control of the .af domain in the first place. The Admin would have renew it. So the Taliban did kill it.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 months ago
If the US hadn’t pulled out, the Taliban wouldn’t be in charge. So Trump killed it.
Indirectly doing things allows anyone to take the blame!
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Well, they run Afghanistan and af is the country code. They picked a domain that they thought was cute, funny or clever and didn’t consider longevity or risk. It’s on them. If I make a website. I won’t pick a silly extension that won’t survive long.
lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
.ck is only available as subdomains - including the hilarious, co.ck.
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 4 months ago
Wouldn’t that need them to get the
fudomain itself? I have a feeling that is already used by someone else, but there currently isn’t any website at that domain (doesn’t mean it isnt used)lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don’t think that
queerasfu.ckwould be registered.
adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 4 months ago
Activitypub makes it next to impossible to “move” an instance to a new domain.
Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.
You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they’ll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a “new” fediverse user they’ll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.
nintendiator@feddit.cl 4 months ago
Thats IMO one of the worst engineering decisions in the protocol, besides all the others, but this one (making identity depend on domains, meaning on third parties antithetical to decentralization) is… laughable. Who was responsible for it?
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Yes, that was a big issue for fmhy.ml too
lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Damn, that’s sad. Thank you for the info.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 4 months ago
Not sure how well this would actually work, but couldn’t the admins “copy” the instance to the new domain and then initiate an account migration from the old to the new instance for every account?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Is there no SAN equivalent for AP?
gianni@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
That’s quite an intentionally misleading headline @hal_5700X@lemmy.world
Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why would you want to use
.afTLD anyway?ApostleO@startrek.website 4 months ago
They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.
queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!
It’s like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same with Twitch.tv, the .tv apparently being the country code for Tuvala.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
They could have renewed it just for the irony. Even if it means giving some money to the Taliban.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 months ago
funding oppression of women for the luls
yuki2501@lemmy.world 4 months ago
New domain name proposal:
queer.asf.uk 🤭
Balinares@pawb.social 4 months ago
Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It was pretty clickbaity but damn I did laugh
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So the Taliban being in control of the .af domain. Made the admins not to renew the instance. To put in away, “The instance has been killed by the Taliban.”.
FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No. The instance being killed by the taliban is the opposite of that is happening here.
The taliban has done nothing, in this case. The admins of the instance have chosen not to keep the instance due to not wanting to fund the taliban in anyway.
This phrasing fucks up which way the action flows, which is important for a headline to get right to remain accurate to the story. Does that make sense?
heyoni@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Nope. That’s extremely misleading.
Neon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No. The Admins killed the Instance.