It redirects to chapo.chat for me but still has banners and posts that call it hexbear

Apparently as another poster pointed out hexbear.net isn't there, or rather it redirects to chapo.chat when I checked it just now. No idea why they'd think that means it's dead though. I was just pointing out the defederation as a possible source of their confusion.

They're defederated on .world and probably some other lib instances. I moved to ml because I didn't like the vibe on world, especially their rabid obsession with "tankies"

Phew, good thing I don't own a car and haven't driven for 13 years... Wait maybe this is the year 👀