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
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.
They've moved to chapo.chat.
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.
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.
Thanks, added to the OP
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.
Bidding ends in 9 days.
Edit: Current bid is up to ~~$305~~ ~~$505~~ ~~$676~~ ~~$710~~ ~~$1920~~ ~~$2345~~ $2365
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.
Hexbear isn't worth dogshit but if someone wants to waste their money, then i wont stop them
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.
My 3 favorite proposed alternative urls are tank.ie hexbearmoretankie.net and infinity.ai
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.
Popcorn! Get'cher popcorn here! Can't have a good fedidrama without that delicious buttery popcorn!
Oh wow, this post reminded me to renew some domains I use.
I've had that happen to some URLs I own before. Basically, they forgot to renew. Normally you get a grace period but some sketchy domain admins take the lapse as an opportunity to auction off what was originally a worthless address now that it has value.
Sad but kinda hilarious. Lemmy.ca appears to have a better succession plan in place through the nonprofit organization...
Wait, what??? Isn’t this a hugely active instance? What happened?
https://lemmy.ca/comment/14489378
Apparently they didn't pay for their registration renewal. Watch out for a flood of displaced tankies, you can usually find them by saying fuck Putin, or fuck Xinnie the pooh, and they'll just put themselves so you can block them.
Paid registration renewal is inherently capitalist, you deranged westoid.
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