Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have nothing to add other than that’s an amazing instance name lol

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s some perfect irony. A queer instance using the Afghanistan domain.

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And this was probably inevitable.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but now it’s owned by the Taliban meaning the queer is coming from inside the house.

  Gottem.

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  • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Always has been. Bacha bazi is still common in Afghanistan.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The irony of this being crossposted from ML.

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  • thejevans@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh I’m fully aware haha, and the article is on a CO site. At the time I made my account, lemmy.ml seemed to be the best option, even with the poor TLD choice.

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    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I'm not giving you grief, I just think it's funny.

      the article is on a CO site

      🤌

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For what it's worth, I guess they saw this coming.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m honestly surprised how long it took. As soon as I saw the server’s domain I thought, “that’s not going to go over well in Afghanistan.” I didn’t realize that the Taliban just hadn’t gotten around to reviewing their TLD yet.

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• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with 2 letter country TLDs?

  .uk .de .us .nl etc all seem like okay candidates

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  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They used .af because it stands for “as fuck”

    As in “queer. As fuck”, meaning VERY queer

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  • thejevans@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem is who controls them. The government of each country can decide at any moment that they want to take control of their TLD and remove any sites that they don’t like. It’s just not good practice if you want your site to stick around.

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    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right. So how do you differentiate between the 2-letters ones and 3+? Each TLD can have domains requisitiioned by a government, even if its indirect through ICANN.

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• Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao

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