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Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban (mastodon.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (27 children)

Sucks, but makes sense.

I'm surprised they even attempted to use that domain. The instance still exists and will need to be routed through a new domain. Which, again sucks, because any reference links will be broken now... which... again... has me wondering why they even went with that domain in the first place. Albeit, it was a clever use of a top level. I wonder how many others are doing the same.

🤷🏽‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I suspect they skipped checking who controls that domain at the time and just saw that it would make for a good name. Not good practice but I can see how that happened.

The only shame here is that there is no way for an instance to "prove" it is the successor to a defunct domain.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (8 children)

A lot of Lemmy and Mastadon instances have really obnoxious names. I hope they learn from this as use a conventional domain/TLD, and not some random ass countries who could get taken away at any minute.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is my instance in danger? 😱 Will Luxembourg disappear overnight?

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

You never know when the Luxembourgish taliban will take over.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

NOONE EXPECTS THE LUXEMBORGIAN TALIBAN!

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

The fact that pornhub is HQ’d in Luxembourg leads me to believe this will be some sort of sexy taliban

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Stupid sexy Taliban!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We are ready to reunite Luxembourg any day now, better get ready to move to the be tld.