queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban (archive.fo)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] Balinares@pawb.social 217 points 6 months ago

Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided -- wisely -- not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

It was pretty clickbaity but damn I did laugh

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 95 points 6 months ago

Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.

[-] iso@lemy.lol 86 points 6 months ago

Another reason to not use ccTLDs.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 49 points 6 months ago

If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

that's why australia has their army of spiders

[-] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

God help us all if we have to break out the Emus

[-] radix@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?

[-] iso@lemy.lol 37 points 6 months ago

Nope. The ones you're mentioned are gTLD (generic top-level domain) but most of the other domains are generic TLD too. See here for the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

Just don't use country-code TLDs because they can removed by those countries. For example fmhy.ml and now queer.af.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just use .net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so .fi or .de or .us or whatever. TLDs aren't just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for "funny" combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

No need to limit yourself to US tld's, country ones for funny domains can be stable as well. My domain koffie.nu (coffee.now in Dutch), registered in '98, is still going strong. I just hope the rising sealevel won't wipe away the country any time soon.

[-] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd

Lies

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[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 12 points 6 months ago

There are tons.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.

[-] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

DNS engineer here: it's the bane of my existence. Vanity TLDs were a cash grab for ICANN. They have made defensive domains a nightmare

[-] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

I want to know more

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[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 82 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you're on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.

Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn't kill it. Admin did.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Such a heinous click bait, I'm inclined to down vote the post. Definitely misleading af.

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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 47 points 6 months ago

They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 months ago

.ck is only available as subdomains - including the hilarious, co.ck.

[-] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wouldn't that need them to get the fu.ck domain itself? I have a feeling that is already used by someone else, but there currently isn't any website at that domain (doesn't mean it isnt used)

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 months ago

Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don't think that queerasfu.ck would be registered.

[-] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 19 points 6 months ago

Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.

Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.

You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

Yes, that was a big issue for fmhy.ml too

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 9 points 6 months ago

Thats IMO one of the worst engineering decisions in the protocol, besides all the others, but this one (making identity depend on domains, meaning on third parties antithetical to decentralization) is... laughable. Who was responsible for it?

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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Damn, that's sad. Thank you for the info.

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not sure how well this would actually work, but couldn't the admins "copy" the instance to the new domain and then initiate an account migration from the old to the new instance for every account? That should both push out the account transfer to all the other instances and preserve the post history as well.

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[-] gianni@lemmy.ca 43 points 6 months ago

That’s quite an intentionally misleading headline @hal_5700X@lemmy.world