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My ccTLD gives me much more confidence than some random company that rents TLDs governed by who knows. It's provided by my ISP which is owned by the state, whic
by unlog 3y ago
My ccTLD gives me much more confidence than some random company that rents TLDs governed by who knows. It's provided by my ISP which is owned by the state, which serves the population.
- arielcostas 3y ago> which is owned by the state, which serves the population Until it doesn't. Corruption and coups are a thing.
- usrbinbash 3y agoGood for you, but... a) that's not the case in many places, as demonstrated by what happened in Afghanistan, where control over the ccTLD now lies with a group of religious extremists b) you have no guarantee that the happy state of affairs with your ccTLD will continue. Governments change, and so do politics.
- hnbad 3y agoSure but all of this is true for gTLDs, with a different set of caveats. Corporations don't exist in a vacuum, they're subject to the laws of the jurisdictions they're incorporated in. Corporations aren't permanent and unchanging, they can pivot in unexpected ways or enact arbitrary decisions that may affect you. Most people just get to pretend gTLDs are safe from politics because most gTLDs are ultimately under US jurisidiction and even outside the US we often treat that as the default. The mistake of the people using dot-af domains was to treat af as if this is also true for them - which even prior to the US retreat wasn't a safe bet. What's also missing from the discourse around `queer.af` is that they were merely one domain of many affected because the Taliban withdrew from Gandi (among others?), not just the people running that Mastodon instance. It's just the most obvious example because of the nature of social media.
- yard2010 3y agoIf you happen to live in a state that serves its population that is
- palata 3y agoObviously. I think we just have to accept that some people trust their government, and some people don't. There is no rule there: use the one you trust (and preferably use the ccTLD only if you have something to do with that country, because that's the whole point).