So it turns out .cat is only for Catalonia. I didn’t know this, just thought it was a neat hostname. So… they finally caught me not being Catalan, and they’re taking my domain away.

It’s sad. I’m not really sure what I plan to do, but in about a week, rss.ponder.cat will be no more. Sorry gamers. No promises but one possibility would be to set up a replacement instance, and just send everyone a DM with links to be able to get their subscriptions via the new instance instead.

People are going to complain at me about having to block the new bots, too. Hooray! Well, life goes on.

(It was published 3 days ago.)

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.cat webmasters not knowing their TLD is for Catalan and .io webmasters not knowing their TLD financially supports the British occupation of the Chagos Islands, name a more iconic duo.

I'm pretty sure they'll let you use the .cat TLD if you literally just do the bare minimum to "promote Catalan language and culture", which is oftentimes as simple as just including Catalan as a UI language option. That's what nyan.cat did.

But yeah, look into your TLDs before you use them, kids.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

someone suggested that but the admin thinks it would be kind of disrespectful which I don't disagree with