Their instance seems to be back up again. A sad day for us all.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Auction: https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net
Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure
Update: post from hexbear admin on chapo.chat: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
We should buy it and turn it into a Lemmy instance that's anti-authoritarian.
Just make it non authoritarian and that will enrage them.
Yep, that was the gist of what I'm going for. Didn't know that was so controversial.
The tankies are out in full force on this thread and downvoting everyone the instant they comment, so it's not as controversial as it looks. Just a handful of butthurt authoritarians.
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Wow, that's a fuck up of monumental proportions. Still 9 days left on the auction, I wonder how much it'll ultimately sell for.
This could be really annoying when they all make accounts on lemmy.ml. Funnily enough, having them sequestered over there and defederated from the rest of us has been working pretty well lately. Moderators and admins better start dusting off the banhammers.
Hexbear isn't worth dogshit but if someone wants to waste their money, then i wont stop them
If I had the money I'd buy it and replace every post with goatse.
EDIT: wtf the insane asylum is loose. Halp
Maybe not goatse, but if i were rich i'd just redirect it to world lmfao
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This almost certainly won't kill the Hexbear community, and frankly I don't think there's any way they will choose to pony up the auction money. This community has moved from reddit to discord to the fediverse and they'll probably just be on their backup/original domain chapo.chat for a month or two before switching over to whatever the admins decide to switch to, and then it will be business as usual under a new name.
Still there's a lesson here about setting up a durable online community - don't let someone control the domain registration with their personal account, you're just asking for something like this to happen. If they don't have one already the admins should set up some kind of organization that can "own" the new domain, donations, etc so that this can't happen again.
I just don't get how you could keep trusting the people that run the instance after this. Its like the whole manjaro thing I could never use it because I do not trust the people in charge because they won't stop fucking up.
I am not writing this to shit on them, but I have to appreciate the irony in the situation. Something about a communist community getting messed up by lapses in individual responsibility, or an authoritarian leaning community getting messed up by fuckups in leadership.
Lol some hexers got salty at your comment in particular
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shut up dork
Ikr. Its almost like we're a bunch of shitposters not a hyper serious org
Its almost like some people think they're immune to critisism as long as they can fall back on "It was just a joke/shitposting bro my five paragraph political essay followed by another five paragraphs of heated debate in the comments was just memes bro why do the libs take us seriously". Have these people ever heard the concept of Schrodingers asshole?
I tried to frame it like “huh that’s funny” and not as an insult. But it’s probably inevitable that some would take offense or just downvote to disagree. No issue with them.
I’m not a hex/MLer, but I don’t try to antagonize them either. And even if I wanted to, I’ve been here long enough to know that the dogpile was still coming, lol.
Good on you for trying to take the balanced center road, too many people here have tribalistic us vs them or nothing mentality.
Me personally? I just don't like hardcore extremist/radical people in general so im enjoying this, slight antagonism be damned.
Anyone who thinks their group personally has the best solution to all of societies problems and human power inbalances. Or anyone who thinks that their group is the pinnacle of morality and virtue who can do no wrong. Or anyone who smugly tries to poke holes in every other competing idea or perspective while willfully downplaying valid criticism for their own tribal groups.
I dislike arrogant idealist who think they're better and smarter than the rest because they read a book or two on socioeconomic theory and went to a political science class in liberal arts college. I dislike self interest masquerading as false virtue and moral superiority. And yes, im talking about more than just tankies, lemmy is chock full of these same types just slight differences in the hats they wear.
So Im getting a little bit of schadenfreude not because I care about their particular flavor of political extremism. Instead because its another group of smug pricks pushing another bullshit agenda while willfully dismissive of any inconvenient truths they dont like. Hexers just got a humorously ironic comeuppance for being the disorganized shitposters they pride themselves on being which is a big tasty cherry on top.
Can you go back in time and repeat this to me as a 20 year old? 😆 You'd be saving a number of people some real headaches.
Although I will say almost all the actual card carrying commies I've met IRL have been wonderful.
Alright I can do that for you grrgyle
You might want to sit down and take some Tylenol. From what people keep telling me, a little bit of Time Trolling™ to retroactively rewrite a persons existence can cause nausa, vomiting, and or complete erasure from all timelines in somewhat rareish cases. Lets hope you don't end up like Jermey, the poor bastard ended up in a really kinky paradox and got Time Goatsed™ for all eternity. Well anyways don't worry im a professional so theres almost no chance of that happening... again... huh. WELPH Here... We... GO!
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