this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Queer.af #mastodon instance was taken down by the #taliban

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Cross-posted from https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/9poqkck6bq

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Reminds me of when art.sy had to change its url after civil war broke out in Syria.

Some dumb marketing team learned that country codes were more than cool letters available on GoDaddy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Now technically this is just a side effect of allowing a government to control a TLD." I say, from feddit.nl, a country which is still trying to form a government based on hating Islam and supporting sibling marriage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] cmat273 2 points 9 months ago

They took the domain and the server was taken down by the owner after that but close enough lmao