Gregory's Serverno centralised social network could ever produce "the taliban deleted my account". that's a mastodon special.
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 @k @jacqueline Where can I look for the context? Was the thing related to the domain being from AF?   @NikaShilobod @k @SrEstegosaurio @jacqueline As Christopher Hitchens said, paraphrasing.... we are at war, like it is not, with a very dangerous religiofascist ideology.  @NikaShilobod Thank you! Without context, the post above could say so many different things. @k @SrEstegosaurio @jacqueline  @jacqueline That's a fedi special. "Lol /etc/hosts doesn't work" is the Mastodon special twist   @jacqueline ha! How did they know? I guess it's throwing themselves off a tall building then.  @jacqueline @jwz though given that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund is investing a lot in “tech” (i.e., consumer-focused, surveillance-capitalist apps), we’ll probably get close soon   @jacqueline @jwz "why vanity ccTLDs are a terrible choice, no matter how cool they look", part 387 in an infinite series.  @spv @womble @jacqueline @jwz Like any ccTLD, unless you live there, you'd better keep an eye on politics in that country, and prepare to fly elsewhere if things start to get spicy. In your case, Saint-Helena has been under control of the British Crown for quite a while, so it should be stable. @SamantazFox @womble @jacqueline @jwz iirc i have spv420.com in case it all goes to shit @shtrom @jacqueline even if you get your own TLD you're fully at the mercy of a huge pile of rules that ICANN will enforce on you. All domains are just borrowed or rented. @shtrom @jacqueline one owns the domain name, but not the TLD. Different TLDs have different requirements, can be based on where you live, your nationality or the content you host on there. It's really worth doing some, research before picking, especially when using ccTLDs which are reserved for specific countries. @shtrom @jacqueline Can one ever truly own land? Only so far as the law will defend your ownership. @shtrom Don't need insight if you've had government do a little more than encourage you to sell farmland for a highway project, for example. Not that it's happened to me, only that it's happened to some folk. (Edit: They don't call 'em **land-rushes** for **domain** names whenever ICANN makes new ones for nothing.) @shtrom @jacqueline anything that isn’t a country TLD has rather strict rules set by ICANN, a registry operator can’t just nick your domain unless you do crime  @q  D-: .io is for the Chagos Islands. I'll say it involves Britain and the US and then I'll leave you to decide if you want to know. It's pretty horrible and relatively recent so you might not want to.  @Homebrewandhacking @shtrom @jacqueline it’s really awful I wish people would stop using the .io TLD. Yeah, it's pretty sickening. In my industry, one of the top independent websites for distribution uses the .io domain. I thought it was one of the new non-geographics but it is not. @shtrom Not a clearnet domain, no. You *can* own an .onion (or similar) though, as all you need for that is a copy of your generated keys. Of course, this will limit the audience of your service somewhat... so renting a clearnet domain on top of the one you actually own is probably a good idea if you're trying to have global appeal for anything.  @shtrom @jacqueline I'd love if everyone who is thoughtlessly doing a colonialism by using a .io domain faced some consequence for it.  @shtrom@piaille.fr you can never truly own a domain name, only rent them perpetually, and IMO that's one of the most egregious and overlooked downsides to the modern internet   @Devourer_ITA @jacqueline there used to be an instance called queer.af which domain was located in afghanistan. they are closing down now because the government didn't like it  @jacqueline yes, I'm sure BigCo's are going to find a nice euphemism when they end up finding it more profitable to do so  Lesson: Don't use the .af domain for anything. "{Adjective}.as f***" is funny but misogynist homophobic theofascists have no sense of humor    @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...  @jacqueline It really isn't. Nations censoring Internet content and enforcing their often puritanical views has been the US's and China's Thing for decades at this point. Yeah. It's amusing in a way. But also instructive. Buying your domain from a country known for repressive policies was never a good idea. @EverydayMoggie @jacqueline I don't know about that, people buy domains from the US all the time.  @jacqueline no, but centralized social networks can produce “I was sentenced to death thanks to the site's owners” @jacqueline love this but somewhat disappointed it didn't end with That's mastodon special AF  @jacqueline This one was especially stupid.    @jacqueline wow this is inspiring me to switch away from a national subdomain controlled by an increasingly fundamentalist government.   @jacqueline centralised social networks likes other way: we deliver your data to government so they can put you into prison/grave @jacqueline the "installed malicious minecraft mod which destroyed the entire server" is a pleroma special
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@jacqueline i'd love some context lmao
edit: i have gotten the context lmao