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Welp

https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm OOTL on hexbear. I know its tankie, but wasn't it a continuation of the chapo trap house subreddit which was was leftie memes? And chapo trap house started from supporters of the podcast, which is run by Democratic socialists. How did the community get so tankie?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please god, make some rich dude buy it and redirect it to .world it would be so fucking funny

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If the bidding doesn't hit at least 6 digits, then we know for sure that Hexbear's paranoia about the CIA undermining them is unfounded 🕶

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lol seriously i hope this inspires more instances to defederate from all the ML instances, since a lot of hexbear users will be pissing off to grad or .ml

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just hate how many non political communities are hosted on .ml.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly there isn't much anymore. At least that's actually worth subscribing to.

I started [email protected] because ML bs and [email protected] was the last community i was subscribed to from ML. Happy days :)

If only db0 would listen to everyone and just defederate them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For some reason a lot of linux stuff is still on lemmy.ml.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh i didn't notice. I'm only subscribed to [email protected] and [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea, that's what I'm hoping for. All those "They're not that bad, they're nice sometimes" folks about to see the mask fall

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If hexbear is "nice sometimes" then i must be the fucking reincarnation of christ himself lmao

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Since there will likely be a flood of people from hexbear that no longer trust the admins some will likely move to another instance. Make sure to report any tankie behavior you see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering that tankies are already treated with kid gloves by many mods who are afraid of being accused of 'bias' (despite tankies accusing them of bias even when they're treated with the utmost patience), this doesn't bode well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah I'm very curious how this ends up affecting lemmy as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You don't have to tell me twice lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll wait out the auction and grab it if it's reasonable.

Hell, someone just start a gofundme and we can collectively buy it and hand the name over to blahaj, just for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's $500 and aint worth a shit anyway, but if someone want to waste their money i wont tell them no x).

Though a lot of them moving to other ml instances could maybe push the fediverse to defederate from all 3 of them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Hell, someone just start a gofundme and we can collectively buy it and hand the name over to blahaj, just for the lulz.

LMFAO I'd pitch in some money to see that lolol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So... How did they lose the domain?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Word on the Lemmy-verse is that the admin in charge of the infrastructure went MIA and someone was waiting to snatch it as soon as it expired and threw it up for auction

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

$300? That's the best you can do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's more than doubled since I went to bed last night. Over $700 now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's all the way up to $305 now! Things are heating up! Will it get to $310?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wouldn't they just move to Hex-bear.co or something if they lose this one?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Possibly, but if whoever buys it does something funny with it, I will still be highly amused.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LOL @ “It’s because capitalism ruined DNS”

https://chapo.chat/post/4468515

[–] oleorun 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DNS is enough to ruin DNS, it doesn't need help from any outside influence.

Source: It's always DNS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

How could it ever not be DNS?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Who bought (or almost bought) InfoWars? Was that The Onion? Someone should let them know!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If I had disposable income, I would massively overbid everyone and just replace the server with a photo of Winnie the Pooh.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Just host a redirect to Wikipedia page of Tiananmen square?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe being held by Putler with heavy makeup?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OMG that would be hilarious, I am definitely not considering taking a loan out for this lmaooo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Can you imagine talking with a bank accountant to sign off on that loan?

"So are you looking to invest in a personal buisness or a down payment on a car or maybe invest in an asset? So what is it cm0002? What would this capital be going towards, what plans do you have to properly utilize this investment?

"I want to win a online auction so I possess a domain name of a niche internet fourm populated by mentally unwell politically extreme nutjobs and general morons. From there I may use the domain to redirect its user to a funny picture insulting them, I dunno havent thought that out too hard yet but the tankies will be fucking OWNED by the time in done with their precious domain." "...."

"...."

"...."

"Okay I guess I can scrape their private information and sell it to the highest bidders, im sure theres a few advertisers and government agencies that wouldn't mind paying to add some names to a list."

"..."

"..."

"Your interest rate for this 12,000$ loan will be 43% and pray I dont alter the deal further. Sign the line and get out of my face you fucking peasant. Have fun paying this off for a quarter of your lifetime."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The way to do this is to setup a non-profit or some other kind of organization. Call it the Touch Grass Foundation. An organization dedicated to getting intensely online people to go outside and touch grass. From there you can point to a membership paying dues and donations to secure the loan.

Really, this is the way fediverse instances should be setup if they are serious about longevity and community. If hexbear had proper governance, they wouldn't be in this situation. I don't think the paranoid is comfortable with that level of transparency though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Auction is up and going everyone LMAO