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1. Zach Leatherman moments later

   (Re: @Robb https://front-end.social/@Robb/110929276191513818)

2. ~/src; 16 min later

   @zachleat And no, unless you are using a domain outside ICANN’s root, you don’t entirely control the domain.

   1. Anders Borch 1 hr later

      @josephholsten @zachleat soo… we’re back to .onion names?

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @anders @josephholsten by tor’s hammer!

3. Ange Chierchia 42 min later

   @zachleat is hosting your blog on GitHub Pages with a custom domain name is considered « control the content » ? Real question.

   1. Zach Leatherman 45 min later

      @nighcrawl for sure it is! You could move that content to any host, just as long as you own the domain name.

      1. Ange Chierchia 55 min later

         @zachleat you’re right, didn’t though things like that. I was thinking « What if GitHub shuts down? Where is my content?» But honestly, it couldn’t be that bad 🤞

   2. Jason B 46 min later

      @nighcrawl @zachleat If GitHub decided tomorrow to institute a policy you disagreed with, or to just kick your off entirely, could you move elsewhere and point your domain at that? Do you have a backup of the repo? Could you pick up and go to GitLab Pages and use their build pipeline instead?

      BTW I only mean these as questions I would ask myself to answer that kind of question. Hopefully they're helpful questions, if not, feel free to ignore!

4. Matthew Mone 1 hr later

   @zachleat not your database, not your data?

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @matt we’ve learned from LLMs that anything public is not exclusively your data either 😭

      1. Matthew Mone 2 hr later

         @zachleat well, I mean, even my data was extrapolated from what data I was trained on from other sources