On: Queer.af Mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban

[erincandescent]

I feel like a lot of the comments in here could be answered by this post: https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

* Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start

* Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change

* But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun

* In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)

* We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

[bogantech → erincandescent]

> But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun

Owning conservative autocrats by giving them my money

[pxoe → erincandescent]

was it worth giving money to a country that would rather see queer people dead? this directly as well, and if not even in significance of a sum, but just out of principle?