• fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    306·
    7 hours ago

    Hexbear isn’t worth dogshit but if someone wants to waste their money, then i wont stop them

          • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            146·
            5 hours ago

            I don’t know if you’re talking about me, but if so i am not western, and hating on MLism isn’t anti-left lmao.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              21·
              10 minutes ago

              Hating on a major branch of leftist thought isn’t technically anti-all left, but it’s still left punching. Trying to say Marxism-Leninism isn’t left is just purity testing nonsense.

              I dunno, if you consider yourself a leftist I think you’d be doing a much better service attacking right-wingers, especially now that there’s a huge rise of literal Nazis in Western countries, than attacking branches of leftism you personally disagree with.

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
              96·
              3 hours ago

              Yes of course, real leftism is when you exclusively punch left and encourage spending money to highjack leftists spaces to redirect them to right wing neo liberal ones.

              • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                66·
                3 hours ago

                Lol. I don’t exclusively punch left so i don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, and i said it would be funny, while saying “it’s a waste of money”.

                and encourage spending money to highjack leftists spaces to redirect them to right wing neo liberal ones.

                Get a clue lmao. State capitalism isn’t leftist. Even fucking social democrats are more leftist, and that’s saying something.

                • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  75·
                  3 hours ago

                  Lol. I don’t exclusively punch left

                  Your comment history disagrees.

                  State capitalism isn’t leftist

                  Oh but imperialist neoliberalism is? I guess “real leftism” is just Western chauvinism.

                  Even fucking social democrats are more leftist

                  Why? Oh right, because they’re Western

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    83·
    6 hours ago

    Is there a remind me bot on Lemmy? Asking for a friend that might do something financially irresponsibly hilarious at last second if the auction values doesn’t go much higher.

  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    443·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      31·
      7 hours ago

      Couldn’t somebody buy it and change it to force all the assholes out and then change things to make it a proper instance?

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Idk how federation works, but I imagine the domain name isn’t the only thing that ties the instanses together together?

        I could be wrong

        • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          nah they could, theyd just change it to their ip address, like the domain vendor deleted their ip address from the records when they didn’t pay

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
    54·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      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.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    244·
    9 hours ago

    Just add the following line to your host file and add an override to your DNS:

    37.187.73.130 hexbear.net

    Problem solved, this is how we did it in 1985.

        • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
          145·
          8 hours ago

          Hexbear isn’t worth the dog shit I scraped off my shoe this morning.

        • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
          91·
          9 hours ago

          The domain name isn’t worth anything, they’ve changed domain names before, they’ll do it again.

          It will be funny that someone paid 500 dollars to make a communist domain redirect to /r/neoliberal or the wikipedia article on economics or the Black Book of Communism or something. Maybe declare Juan Guaidó the interim president of hexbear and redirect to his twitter.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      131·
      6 hours ago

      How does anyone know that this is a fair auction. As much as the users may be hated or disliked, I still don’t believe in companies or corporations taking advantage of people like this to make a cheap buck.

      Who’s to say that every bid in the auction is being artificially raised by a company rep and no matter what amount anyone comes up with, the owner will just keep raising it until they find a really high value.

      Shitty situation all around and as much as they are not liked, I wouldn’t want anything like this happening to any honest instance out there.

      • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Thats always risky and I highly doubt it, they could just not buy it and then they’re stuck holding the domain and can’t sell it for a cheaper price immediately after

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
      6·
      6 hours ago

      According to that statement they don’t have access to the account to renew that one either, so they’ll lose it eventually and it should be considered temporary. 🤷‍♂️

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      177·
      8 hours ago

      Thanks! Unlike a lot of Lemmy users, I have a soft spot for hexbears. I think they had a genuinely traumatic experience when they federated and their very personal instance was inundated with people who didn’t think and talk as they did. I’m glad they’re ok.

      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Their community reminds me of that one Something Awful subforum with the same style. I guess hexbear is just a younger demographic

    • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      13 hours ago

      They didn’t really move. That hostname has been a synonym for hexbear.net all along. It may have been the instance’s original hostname.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    323·
    13 hours ago

    Popcorn! Get’cher popcorn here! Can’t have a good fedidrama without that delicious buttery popcorn!

    • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
      153·
      13 hours ago

      I’ll have a large with extra salt, please.

      Oh, hell, and some milk duds too, it’s gonna be a good show.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    202·
    12 hours ago

    Sad but kinda hilarious. Lemmy.ca appears to have a better succession plan in place through the nonprofit organization…

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
      14·
      5 hours ago

      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. 🍿

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        51·
        2 hours ago

        Wouldn’t it be better to agree whatever bit yall want to do with the domain name and spend the money on something more productive? Here’s a father trying to buy his kid a new leg after Israel blew it off.

        I speak for all of hexbear when I say the domain isn’t worth that much, and losing it to capitalism is a funny bit, redirect it to /r/neoliberal or the wikipedia article on economics or the Black Book of Communism or something. Maybe declare Juan Guaidó the interim president of hexbear and redirect to his twitter.

        Losing it to some anticommunist “left” weirdo to flex how much money they are willing to waste on an internet grudge instead of helping literally anyone is less funny.

        • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
          4·
          2 hours ago

          I’m j_s_0e6b87 aka JS. Linking r/neoliberal? Pfffft, not even close! I want to Make Hexbear Great Again. It’ll talk about the wonders of NATO, and how Israel is doing the right thing (if you disagree you’re Antisemitic and a living proof of the horseshoe theory). I also want to denounce the horrors of mayocide and shitty image reactions, plus insert the Nazi 14 words there otherwise it’s literally 1984. (Just kidding.)

          Okay, serious now. I don’t know what’s up with this bidding war; this shit is weird. Currently the highest bid is at US$710, that’s 200x more than I have in my wallet*. And it’s perfectly possible that the bidders are all doing it for different reasons: perhaps they believe that it had enough traffic to justify the price, or they want to recover it for your instance, or they are indeed in some weird vendetta.

          And if it’s a vendetta it could be for a thousand reasons. It could be anticommunism, but it could be as well some HB user behaving like a wild monkey outside your home instance and getting someone pissed enough to do this stupid shit.

          *R$20, or roughly US$3.50. Yup. If I had some money I’d gladly donate to Karim.