The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t be picking domains based on stuff like “hehe it says queer as fuck lul”? What did they expect to happen picking Afghanistan of all places for the domain of an LGBT instance?
funny as shit
I am even surprised that the Taliban let someone buy the queer.af domain.
But it’s also a cool feature of the federation, an instance is closed by an authoritarian government, tons of others are still there, and migration is easy, so you don’t loose you whole network. Still an annoyance for the user, but not as much an annoyance as when a centralized social media closes.
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Just because they can take control of the domain doesn’t mean they somehow have access to the data any servers that used the domain have. Those servers were, i feel confident, not in Afghanistan. Domains are just redirects, so the Taliban have nothing on any of the users.
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rip to a real one. this is our 9/11
I know we’re talking about a time before a lot of young adults were born, but comparing the closure of a federated instance to what happened to a lot of people and families on 9/11 is actually pretty fucked up.
Edit: Alright. Apparently some atrocities are okay because other atrocities happen, too. Love you guys.
What’s the difference between 9/11 and a cow?
You stop milking the cow after a decade.
I did not think I needed an /s but I guess I did
Americans have no sense of perspective. I have friends who were affected by the tower collapse in NY. We sent more service members to die looking for Bin Laden than were killed that day. And more than 10 times a many people die from gun violence in the US every God damned year than died in all four plane strikes. And every one of those other tragedies destroys families and communities.
It’s so overblown it’s practically a meme to everyone but the boomers and Christian “patriots” who need a way to make people angry about foreigners so they can ignore our home grown violent tendencies.
