whenever i have to do any fedi admin/tech work that puts me up against a list of instances, i am always astonished at just how many fucking incredible domain names yall have
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whenever i have to do any fedi admin/tech work that puts me up against a list of instances, i am always astonished at just how many fucking incredible domain names yall have
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jonny (good kind)replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
beneath the library of babel where all possible URIs are enumerated, and the subset of all domains that are registered but might be used by bots or corporations or name hoarders... the subset of 'all actual domains used by actual people' is one of the great linguistic achievements of humanity.
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jonny (good kind)replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
the politics re: IANA and what top-level domains exist is none other than the linguistic politics of what words and phrases can exist as a hybrid identity-location. the constraint of timing of TLD availability, deference to corporate names, DNS infrastructure, registration/theft windows, and so on make for a canvas as rich as any other of its size. a bitmap with fewer pixels is not intrinsically less beautiful than a painting, even if fewer of them are possible.
may every underpass be filled with graffiti and every medium of human expression be full and boistrous and obnoxious and spill out of every expectation and intended purpose that might bound them.
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@[email protected] I feel like this when I go to a new area and see the local wifi names, too. We're communicating everywhere, all the time. I love it.