• Balinares@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    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.

    • Hal-5700X@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.

      So the Taliban being in control of the .af domain. Made the admins not to renew the instance. To put in away, “The instance has been killed by the Taliban.”.

      • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        No. The instance being killed by the taliban is the opposite of that is happening here.

        The taliban has done nothing, in this case. The admins of the instance have chosen not to keep the instance due to not wanting to fund the taliban in anyway.

        This phrasing fucks up which way the action flows, which is important for a headline to get right to remain accurate to the story. Does that make sense?

    • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.devEnglish
      1·
      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.

    • NekkoDroid@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      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.mlEnglish
        1·
        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.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

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