@laurenshof I'd imagine ICANN would avoid retiring .io, like the article mentioned - money talks.

But, are companies like GitHub going to see this as a liability and preempt any official determination from ICANN by migrating off.io early? And if a number of big companies decide they're not risking sticking around on .io - will that ultimately influence ICANN to decide retiring .io is feasible after all.

Though .yu seems like precedent to give .io to ~Mauritania~ Mauritius.

@laurenshof A while ago, I started hosting my blog over Tor, because I didn't have a web host and it ran off a laptop with a broken screen. Never thought that would be more reliable than an entire country's TLD

@laurenshof uh oh

501 lol

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/threads-makes-it-easier-to-evangelize-the-open-social-web-with-a-new-direct-link-feature/

@laurenshof it is Twitter’s problem not mine; maybe I’d care if was on Twitter but… I’m not

The problem with Twitter is that it has always gotten so much free amplification and publicity because it was so seductive to reporters. From every famous dogpiling or “controversial” Elon Musk tweet the direct exposure was a fraction of how much it got talked about off platform as much as everybody who cares wants to deny it.

@laurenshof I expected that Elon would, at the last minute, appoint a Brazilian legal representative, for the purpose of stalling. But maybe not!

Russian government banned Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook in 2022 and no one talked about it here. Most people simply continue using all these services through VPNs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@laurenshof The mom… babies everywhere.

@laurenshof Funny and sad.

BTW how are people getting these answers? By just searching at google dot com?

When I do that, I don't see any result labeled "AI Overview" in the All tab.

Maybe a good thing, but I'm just curious.

@laurenshof

what