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hexbear.net is on sale for auction (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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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

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[–] Carl@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Put my bid in. Man, lots of people on Lemmy hate me already...just imagine when I own hexbear!!!!

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Bidding ends in 9 days.

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Edit: Current bid is up to ~~$305~~ ~~$505~~ ~~$676~~ ~~$710~~ ~~$1920~~ ~~$2345~~ $2365

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

As @Sunshine@lemmy.ca mentioned it's now at $505.

What's up with j_s_0e6b87? (Let's call them JS). If they really want the address that's the wrong way to go - bidding too high, too early, too often, and in a bidding war against everyone else. A better approach is to wait until the last hours and then try to snip it.

Unless their goal is to raise the prices this way?

EDIT: currently $676. JS is in a bid war with TB (t_b_2a08d7), a newcomer. 🍿

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They'll probably stay in chapo.chat, and instance owners will update their blocked lists. A few users lost because they can't be arsed to re-register, instead using .ml. But, past that, not much is going to change, I think.

I'm mildly curious on what's going to happen with their older domain - or, what the winning bidder will make out of it. (Document bad online behaviour? Make it about NATO to rub salt on their wounds? What else?)

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except they already said that the same issue will occur with the backup name as well. Unless the additional time allows the original owner to finally reregister it this time, as they (reportedly) claimed to be ready to do for the main one as well. I think they don't trust them anymore:-).

So everyone might move, then have to move again a second time. Not joking btw!:-)

Is it weird that I feel bad for them? Whoever is to blame, a lot of the users are innocent of this. And are also trolls, true, but even so... It would be nice if some people would learn from this that online trolling is one thing, but eventually it's even better to wake up and live in the real world. I want that for them.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think that the additional time will be enough to let them contact the original owner. But dunno, there might be some drama involved, IIRC not even the original devs want much to do with HB.

And even if they move twice, the userbase seems close-knit enough to follow without too many losses.

Is it weird that I feel bad for them?

I don't think it is. The main problem there seems to be users going rogue outside their home instance; I remember HB had some rule like "respect rules of the other instances you interact with", but it was toilet paper. However plenty of the other users are completely OK.

Another issue is that there is some red scare against them. And even if they use it to shield themselves from actual criticism in a really dumb way, the red scare is still there.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They openly idolize Stalin. That's not from a couple rogue users

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The rest of the Fediverse should put together a GoFundMe to buy the domain, and stick up a page with links to donate drones to Ukrainian soldiers, and care packages to families of Uyghur muslims detained in concentration camps in China.

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[–] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (22 children)

They've moved to chapo.chat.

Here's their statement.

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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weird, www.hexbear.net redirects to chapo.chat while hexbear.net doesn't.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For me, both redirect to chapo.
With different messages on top that aren't friendly to hexbear.
WTF is going on here?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

Hexbear has taglines that contain some of the funniest things said about Hexbear, or just funny in general. This is standard for Hexbear, if you refresh the page the taglines change.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

My 3 favorite proposed alternative urls are tank.ie hexbearmoretankie.net and infinity.ai

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Serious question: if this happened to a popular federated instance (say Lemmy.world) and it got bought by someone malicious, what's the worst they could do to my Lemmy feed and the Lemmy community in general?

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's up to $1921 now lol

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Went up by a thousand in 2 minutes if I'm reading it correctly.

[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bid $1,000 on it. But that was my max. So out of my league now.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'm not up to date with my Hexbear knowledge, is hexbear dead?

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