Post by @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan
@aral @mastodon.ar.al
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So maybe launching with small-web.org and having small-tech.org is not a good idea after all…

So what are safe TLDs? Is there even such a thing? Any TLDs not controlled by the US in one form or another? Any anti-fascist TLDs?

Hey @EUCommission, maybe this is the sort of thing you should be looking into given all your “digital sovereignty”, talk, hmm? Pretty easy one to fix, this one.

Benjamin Sonntag-King @benjamin@piaille.fr

@malteengeler

The domain names of
autistici.org / inventati.org (and noblogs.org) are now suspended.
.org being managed by a US entity they were forced to suspend them due to Autisti (the oldest leftwing Italian collective doing web and mail hosting) being declared a terrorist organisation by Trump

Even for WikiLeaks they didn't do that

The US are clearly a fascist state now....

And all your links to your blogs are now dead 😭🥴

(Editing so everyone knows: maybe not. They were dead a few hours ago but not anymore)
(subedit: autistici.org still dead, the other are fine for now)

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Aral Balkan
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@EUCommission Also, some of you were scratching your heads when I mentioned last year that the Small Web will be using web numbers, not domain names.

Maybe it makes a bit more sense now?

ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

PS. If you’re a developer, you can host your web site at a web number (instead of a domain name) today using Auto Encrypt:

codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e

PPS. This work is funded by €408/month in donations (no that’s not our only source of income otherwise we would be homeless) but yes, I work full time on this. If you want to see us continue to exist against all odds, here’s the link:

small-tech.org/fund-us/

#WebNumbers #SmallWeb #SmallTech #antifascism #decentralisation #TLDs #ICAAN #centralisation #USA #fascism #tech

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Aral Balkan
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@EUCommission On the same note, have any of you tried Stancer for online payments? Would you recommend them (or other EU-based providers with EU infrastructure?)

• european-alternatives.eu/produ
• stancer.com/fra/en/online-paym

Because I’m thinking it’s probably best to get off of Stripe too.

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David Culley
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@aral Never heard of it. 🙁