The situation as it stands is that if you post an image or an emoji only nerds who modified their hosts file will see it. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by FunkyStuff@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Do with this information what you will, but it's at least kinda funny that the site is now segregated across tech nerddom lines.

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[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Or you're a turbonerd and click "view source," see the emoji name, and laugh at the memory of what it looked like

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Everything works fine for me on Jerboa and an ML account.

Truly I am one of the privileged few

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Everything's working normal for me and I changed nothing

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Well yeah but you're dirt owl

Also that's probably just because of things being cached in the device you're using ATM, but eventually it will expire and it'll all be "visit hexbear" images.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Once your DNS cache flushes it will stop working. Just happened to me.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Down the toilet it goes

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

The true nerds are the ones who were already running PiHole on their home LAN so they just had to add a custom DNS entry and now HexBear works on all of our devices, plus ad blocking