5 ms·

Queer.af Mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban

WhyUVoteGarbage 3y ago
Not a joke, the TLD was .af. As reported by Kevin Beaumont https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111918422459442548 https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111918422459442548
thiht 3y ago
That’s why you don’t use ccTLDs for vanity domains. The only ccTLD you should ever use is your own country TLD, otherwise stick with gTLDs, ideally .com or .net.
h2odragon 3y ago
[flagged]
- singleshot_ 3y ago
  What we do is we figure out how to remove from them stewardship of the .af TLD so that it can be used for normal things and not their evil.
  - skissane 3y ago
    If that were seriously attempted, China and Russia would likely seize the opportunity to set up their own competing DNS root zone, completely beyond American control, and dozens of countries around the world would sign up for it. The global DNS root might suddenly splinter into two.
    - h2odragon 3y ago
      The end is nigh: https://icannwiki.org/Alternative_Roots https://icannwiki.org/Alternative_Roots
- boredpeter 3y ago
  [dead]
poulpy123 3y ago
What did they expect ?
- CommanderData 3y ago
  Not sure what they were expecting. A bit like registering anti-ccp with a Chinese TLD. Shouldn't be shocked when it gets pulled.
  - silpol 3y ago
    you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?
    - skissane 3y ago
      Bad analogy: the previous Afghanistan government was also anti-LGBT, albeit less extremely so - the previous government’s Penal Code, introduced in 2018, criminalises homosexuality and punishes it with imprisonment. When the Taliban took over, they announced that imprisonment is now replaced with death
      - deleted 3y ago
        [deleted]
    - filoleg 3y ago
      Yeah, except imagine you registered it in a region where ccp-like government comes in power on a regular basis, and even without them in power, it is not exactly an LGBT-friendly place. To be clear, I am not trying to say that CCP is in any way similar to Taliban, because it isn’t. Was just trying to demonstrate the lack of foresight happening here using your own hypothetical scenario.
- Kye 3y ago
  What were they supposed to do? It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. Changing a domain name in a federated system is tricky business.
Megranium 3y ago
Unrelated to the topic content-wise, but what's the link format? Like, with the object identifier ...
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
nijave 3y ago
Does Mastodon have an features to transition domain names? It seems it's be useful to have a configurable backup that the system pushes out that can also be used if the primary is unavailable. Ideally with a way to inform federated systems of the switch
- jszymborski 3y ago
  Users can migrate instance (thereby changing the domain their account is hosted from). This, however, requires that the server they are migrating TO can resolve the domain of the instance they are migrating FROM. I am unaware of any "whole instance" redirecting.
erincandescent 3y ago
I feel like a lot of the comments in here could be answered by this post: https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?” * Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start * Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change * But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun * In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains) * We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer
- pxoe 3y ago
  was it worth giving money to a country that would rather see queer people dead? this directly as well, and if not even in significance of a sum, but just out of principle?
- bogantech 3y ago
  > But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun Owning conservative autocrats by giving them my money

Not a joke, the TLD was .af. As reported by Kevin Beaumont https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111918422459442548 https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111918422459442548

thiht 3y ago

That’s why you don’t use ccTLDs for vanity domains. The only ccTLD you should ever use is your own country TLD, otherwise stick with gTLDs, ideally .com or .net.

h2odragon 3y ago

[flagged]

singleshot_ 3y ago
What we do is we figure out how to remove from them stewardship of the .af TLD so that it can be used for normal things and not their evil.
- skissane 3y ago
  If that were seriously attempted, China and Russia would likely seize the opportunity to set up their own competing DNS root zone, completely beyond American control, and dozens of countries around the world would sign up for it. The global DNS root might suddenly splinter into two.
  - h2odragon 3y ago
    The end is nigh: https://icannwiki.org/Alternative_Roots https://icannwiki.org/Alternative_Roots
boredpeter 3y ago
[dead]

poulpy123 3y ago

What did they expect ?

CommanderData 3y ago
Not sure what they were expecting. A bit like registering anti-ccp with a Chinese TLD. Shouldn't be shocked when it gets pulled.
- silpol 3y ago
  you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?
  - skissane 3y ago
    Bad analogy: the previous Afghanistan government was also anti-LGBT, albeit less extremely so - the previous government’s Penal Code, introduced in 2018, criminalises homosexuality and punishes it with imprisonment. When the Taliban took over, they announced that imprisonment is now replaced with death
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
  - filoleg 3y ago
    Yeah, except imagine you registered it in a region where ccp-like government comes in power on a regular basis, and even without them in power, it is not exactly an LGBT-friendly place. To be clear, I am not trying to say that CCP is in any way similar to Taliban, because it isn’t. Was just trying to demonstrate the lack of foresight happening here using your own hypothetical scenario.
Kye 3y ago
What were they supposed to do? It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. Changing a domain name in a federated system is tricky business.

Megranium 3y ago

Unrelated to the topic content-wise, but what's the link format? Like, with the object identifier ...

deleted 3y ago

[deleted]

nijave 3y ago

Does Mastodon have an features to transition domain names? It seems it's be useful to have a configurable backup that the system pushes out that can also be used if the primary is unavailable. Ideally with a way to inform federated systems of the switch

jszymborski 3y ago
Users can migrate instance (thereby changing the domain their account is hosted from). This, however, requires that the server they are migrating TO can resolve the domain of the instance they are migrating FROM. I am unaware of any "whole instance" redirecting.

erincandescent 3y ago

I feel like a lot of the comments in here could be answered by this post: https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?” * Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start * Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change * But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun * In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains) * We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

pxoe 3y ago
was it worth giving money to a country that would rather see queer people dead? this directly as well, and if not even in significance of a sum, but just out of principle?
bogantech 3y ago
> But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun Owning conservative autocrats by giving them my money