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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

cross-posted to:
technology@beehaw.org

After years in limbo, the Taliban recently began reoperating Afghanistan's .af TLD, which is breaking parts of the internet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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They used .af because in modern english, “af” stands for “as fuck”

As in “queer. As fuck”, meaning VERY queer

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