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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87 points

They’ve moved to chapo.chat.

Here’s their statement.

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55 points

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.

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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.

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I dont think anyone on hexbear is actually bidding on the auction. For one most users are poor and the consensus seems to be that any money that would go to cyberlandlords would be better served in the mutual_aid comm. Like if someone wants to spend money on hexbear, they should spend it on those that need it the most.

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11 points

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

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24 points

Thanks, added to the OP

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10 points

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.

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they had a genuinely traumatic experience

Jesus Christ, this is so ridiculous. They federated on their own accord, and from what I’ve seen very little non-hexbear users ever came to post on hexbear communitites. Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you isn’t fucking traumatic, in fact these people adore arguing and “dunking” on “libs”.

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12 points

Dunking on other instances was literally the entire reason they federated in the first place. Their users were salivating at what they would do to lemmy.ca before we defed’d.

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2 points

They love to paint themselves as victims.

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Their users wanted to defederate right away when they saw the rest of Lemmy. The people in charge (able to pull the switch) kept telling them to hold on and it’d get better. A small number of people made the decision for all of them. It’s all the rest for whom I genuinely feel bad. Their community was highjacked and, I think to them, attacked. I can have empathy for the average users.

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Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you

It takes so very little for liberals to take their masks off and start talking word-for-word exactly the same as incel nazis.

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14 points

Ah, I saw a lot of people traumatized by their posting, but it is the first time I hear about the opposite.

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13 points

Hexbear is the only place online I’ve found that I feel most comfortable speaking my mind as a neurodivergent queer communist. People act like hexbear is some harsh authoritarian zone, it just simply doesn’t condone chauvinism, transphobia, or let people post western propaganda without it being questioned. Some people react poorly to the way they are responded to on hexbear when they post some bullshit that we’ve heard and debunked 1000 times already.

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13 points

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

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5 points

Homie, they inundated everywhere else with their bile, very few people actually came to their instance.

They were the traumatic experience.

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10 points

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. 🤷‍♂️

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2 points

Updated my blocklist, thank you

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