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
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
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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