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   jacquelines 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 20:45:56 JST jacquelines 🌟

   no centralised social network could ever produce "the taliban deleted my account". that's a mastodon special.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 00:12:49 JST Nathan Schneider

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     @jacqueline wow this is inspiring me to switch away from a national subdomain controlled by an increasingly fundamentalist government.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 02:34:15 JST Rich Felker

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     @jacqueline It's kinda amazing to me how the internet has normalized buying/using ccTLDs without even minimal research into the laws, politics, and even basic stability of the countries they belong to...

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     Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:04:38 JST Erin 💽✨

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     • Bibi :v_com:
     @bhayashi @jacqueline https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenoDMPN0SdVXSq9ZY https://queer-af.alioth.systems/@erincandescent/111917570311051145
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     Bibi :v_com: (bhayashi@ursal.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:04:40 JST Bibi :v_com:

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     • Erin 💽✨

     @jacqueline @erincandescent what? What happened here? XD

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     Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:04:57 JST Thomas

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     @jacqueline That's a fedi special. "Lol /etc/hosts doesn't work" is the Mastodon special twist

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     Erik Uden 🚩 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:02 JST Erik Uden 🚩

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     @jacqueline no, but centralized social networks can produce “I was sentenced to death thanks to the site's owners”

     https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/110988671917311235

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     Sky Rose 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/them) (sky@better.boston)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:13 JST Sky Rose 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/them)

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     • Mary

     @mary @jacqueline The mastodon server queer.af had to shut down because they used the ccTLD of Afghanistan, which is now administered by the Taliban, and they're cracking down on queer stuff.

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     Mary (mary@social.coolmathgames.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:23 JST Mary

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     @jacqueline@chaos.social I'm so confused... What's the context?

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     Nika Shilobod (nikashilobod@fediscience.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:33 JST Nika Shilobod

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     • Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕
     • Koutsie :unverified:

     @k
     @SrEstegosaurio @jacqueline

     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344147

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     Koutsie :unverified: (k@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:35 JST Koutsie :unverified:

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     • Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕

     @SrEstegosaurio @jacqueline yeah. domain suspended.

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     Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕 (srestegosaurio@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:36 JST Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕

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     • Koutsie :unverified:

     @k @jacqueline Where can I look for the context? Was the thing related to the domain being from AF?

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     Koutsie :unverified: (k@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:37 JST Koutsie :unverified:

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     @jacqueline i'd love some context lmao
     edit: i have gotten the context lmao

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     183231bcb@transfem.social's status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:46 JST 183231bcb

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     • Charismatic Batman

     @CharismaticBatman@theres.life @jacqueline@chaos.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @jacqueline@chaos.social Some folks set up a fediverse instance on the domain queer.af. They intended it to mean "queer as fuck." The problem is that the ".af" top-level domain actually stands for "Afghanistan," not "as fuck." The Taliban was recently given control of the ".af" TLD, so if the admins of queer.af wanted to renew their domain they would have had to pay money to the Taliban, and the instance would be under Afghan law. The admins decided to shut the instance down instead.

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     Charismatic Batman (charismaticbatman@theres.life)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:48 JST Charismatic Batman

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     @jacqueline

     Okay, I'm dying to know the context behind this toot 🤣

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     183231bcb@transfem.social's status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:51 JST 183231bcb

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     • spv

     @spv@mastodon.spv.sh @jacqueline@chaos.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @jacqueline@chaos.social Some folks set up a fediverse instance on the domain queer.af. They intended it to mean "queer as fuck." The problem is that the ".af" top-level domain actually stands for "Afghanistan," not "as fuck." The Taliban was recently given control of the ".af" TLD, so if the admins of queer.af wanted to renew their domain they would have had to pay money to the Taliban, and the instance would be under Afghan law. The admins decided to shut the instance down instead.

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     spv (spv@mastodon.spv.sh)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:53 JST spv

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     @jacqueline oh christ, what did i miss? lmfao

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:05:57 JST Luis Villa

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     @jacqueline https://itsnotdns.itwasdns.net/

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