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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 i_have_no_enemies to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they could do anything about it. As far as I know, Mastodon doesn't support any kind of instance renaming, so the hostname is one thing you cannot change. You can only spin up a completely new instance.

[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 1 points 9 months ago

I thought they'd already shut down. Renaming isn't an option, but you can at least direct your users to the new instance.

I figured they would have almost instantly gone read only and prepared the self destruction. But I guess they just closed off registration and set the self destruct pretty far out.