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Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).
https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenoDMPN0SdVXSq9ZY
Who’s bright idea was it to integrate the domain name itself directly into the software such that changing the domain name totally fucks up the whole thing? Is there actually a good reason for this to not work like any other website where the domain name is just an address and changing it doesn’t actually have any effect other than requiring users to type in or bookmark a different URL?
Federation combined with keeping the historical federated data consistent is certainly a bitch. We can’t have it all. It could be like email that only handles delivery at any point in time and history is purely local, but Mastodon specifically keeps the federated data public. Propagating the change on the historical data to the federated instances would be nearly impossible. I don’t see how it could have been done better without sacrificing something else.
Who’s bright idea was it to integrate the domain name itself directly into the software such that changing the domain name totally fucks up the whole thing? Is there actually a good reason for this to not work like any other website where the domain name is just an address and changing it doesn’t actually have any effect other than requiring users to type in or bookmark a different URL?
Federation combined with keeping the historical federated data consistent is certainly a bitch. We can’t have it all. It could be like email that only handles delivery at any point in time and history is purely local, but Mastodon specifically keeps the federated data public. Propagating the change on the historical data to the federated instances would be nearly impossible. I don’t see how it could have been done better without sacrificing something else.