Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure
Put my bid in. Man, you guys hate me now…just imagine when I own hexbear!!!
I don’t recognize your username. Why would anyone have an opinion on you?
Fair point! I have just spent all day arguing against people trying to get me banned from the fediverse. So I guess I left the blinders on.
In this very sub, there was a post yesterday: “TrumpsTruth, Conservatism, TheNewDonald, what’s happening on this instance? Is this a thing?”
And it’s around 60 comments of people telling me how much they hate me, and calling out admins to ban me! So my joke was mostly to them. And a few months before that a thread, “TrumpsTruth, Conservatism, TheNewDonald, what’s happening on this instance? Is this a thing?”
I spend so much time being yelled at that I forget that I’m actually not that well-known. It come because from comments of, “Everyone hates you!” and “Your name is everywhere.”
Good to know that it’s not everywhere. Maybe then they can shut up about how I have ruined the Fediverse and should be banned…
Thanks for calling me out. Edited.
Ah, that’s why we don’t know you. Most of us sort things in ways that show us good not bad
Yep!
Thanks, friend!
It’s up to $1921 now lol
who needs the CIA infiltration manual when tankies will do it to themselves?
We should buy it and turn it into a Lemmy instance that’s pro-capitalism.
Lol
Auction you say?
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.
Couldn’t somebody buy it and change it to force all the assholes out and then change things to make it a proper instance?
Idk how federation works, but I imagine the domain name isn’t the only thing that ties the instanses together together?
I could be wrong
nah they could, theyd just change it to their ip address, like the domain vendor deleted their ip address from the records when they didn’t pay
That’s not how the Fediverse works. Instances are per domain, not per IP address. You can change IPs however often you want, as long as your domain points to the right server.
It would still be a different instance behind that same domain name
That doesn’t matter to fediverse software. Any new instance on hexbear.net would have errors when trying to federate with other instances, and it probably wouldn’t be able to do so at all. But even if it did manage it, what are you expecting to do to mitigate the errors that arise from other instances referencing users/threads/posts/comments/communities/modlogs that existed on the old instance, but do not exist on the new one?
referencing users/threads/posts/comments/communities/modlogs that existed on the old instance, but do not exist on the new one
Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. It would be a different instance that doesn’t have the same database as the original one.
I’d rather people just fund their instances or the developers
Honestly I’d donate. Would love to see them seethe.
care packages to families of Uyghur muslims detained in concentration camps in China.
So right to the pockets of Adrian Zenz?
Is there a remind me bot on Lemmy? Asking for a friend that might do something financially irresponsibly hilarious at last second if the auction values doesn’t go much higher.
Hexbear isn’t worth dogshit but if someone wants to waste their money, then i wont stop them
If I had the money I’d buy it and replace every post with goatse.
yes let’s sexually harass all those people depending on our mutual aid comm. you’re so righteous.
The bid is at $505.00!
Is Hexbear even worth that much?
Hexbear isn’t worth the dog shit I scraped off my shoe this morning.
The domain name isn’t worth anything, they’ve changed domain names before, they’ll do it again.
It will be funny that someone paid 500 dollars to make a communist domain redirect to /r/neoliberal or the wikipedia article on economics or the Black Book of Communism or something. Maybe declare Juan Guaidó the interim president of hexbear and redirect to his twitter.
That genuinely would be a funny troll
$1921 🤯 We need a Lemmy livestream for the countdown to it settling
That would’ve been some nice funding for the instances and fediverse developers.
What was the problem with Hexbear again?
Their users are needlessly hostile towards anyone who disagrees with them, they had a bug that caused their emotes to become oversized on Lemmy which quickly flooded threads when their users spam them, and they have a reputation for brigading threads to “dunk” on people. They also really like to flood threads with graphic images of pigs shitting on their own testicles, because that’s definitely what normal people do.
It’s worth noting that they don’t federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they do so in order to dunk on people and “dismantle Western propaganda” and “plant the beans of truth in other instances fields” and in general act in bad faith. Worse, their instance admins did little to stop this.
They were defederated from many instances for good reason, as their behaviour drove away a lot of new users. A lot of Hexbear users have alts on lemmy.ml and midwest.social, so the defederation doesn’t stop their users from continuing to be dickheads.
And if you’d like some receipts, I have plenty of examples. Best viewed from an instance that federates with Hexbear, so you can see their behaviour for yourself.
https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347 https://lemm.ee/post/4543536 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2017079 https://lemmy.world/post/2498330
Oh wow OK.
Thanks for the detailed explanation and sources.
No problem. I was around when Hexbear was still federated with my instance and saw the worst of it all, so I try to keep people informed. Their behaviour nearly made me leave Lemmy entirely, and no doubt others have because of it.
It’s only a problem if you don’t like having chauvinism and western state propaganda brainworms questioned. As a ND queer communist I have never felt more comfortable and welcome posting than on hexbear. Their mutual aid comm is highly active and an immensely helpful place for many people. It’s an adorable community, they get a bad rap by people that come in arguing in bad faith who then run away to shame the hateful ‘tankies’ on their main instance like this post here.
I’ve seen how they behave in other communities, they didn’t “question” anything, and there’s nothing adorable about them.
Maybe they think pigs shitting on their balls is adorable? Saw a whole lot of that from Hexbears.
That’s their fetish.
That’s not what I saw from what many instance admins have posted. They don’t seem friendly at all.
why not just join and see for yourself? Or dont even need to join, its a public website just browse for a bit
Most of them are tankies (dumb political ideology) but most people took issue with the fact that they were the most annoying people on Lemmy. Every thread they’d be in would be a collection of the worst takes imaginable and they liked to start arguments with everyone else
Let’s also not forget their emoji spamming either. They absolutely trashed many threads on servers federated with them.
Especially the pig shitting one.
Yup, that’s one of their favorites to spam.
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i think its more of a general term, specifically with the focus on large government oversight.
“tankies” don’t like anyone on the left of them
What’s to the left of “everybody to the left of Elizabeth Warren”?
Absolutely wrong. A tankie is a fake leftist who idolizes authoritarian regimes / leaders
So, it’s a perjorative then.
Sure like calling a Nazi a Nazi is technically pejorative. More importantly, it’s a warning identifier to others.
A Nazi is a real thing, there was a Nazi party that ruled a country, and there are still people nowadays who adhere to the ideals of that party.
There was never a “Tankie” party, it’s something that only exists in your head and has no representation in the real world.
It doesn’t have to be a defined party to be an ideology. It’s pretty hilarious y’all are defending authoritarian Stans
So Zante was right.
It’s clearly an ideology as well, which is what I was addressing. (Ideology/idolize)
“Tankie” is a caricature. The idea of a tankie is the ideal vision of a McCarthyian Communist. In reality, the overwhelming majority of people labeled as such don’t actually fit that label, it’s more of a way to cast an image of someone’s positions based on, say, support for AES countries, and twist that into the evil Commie Pinko that haunts the dreams of 1960s children in the US.
So, yes, it’s a pejorative, and not one I think is aiding leftists trying to understand the views of others. More often than not it’s used as “commie” was: to shut down conversation and otherize people.
If someone supports authoritarians masquerading as leftists they subscribe to tankie ideology. Sucks for them that it’s a pejorative TOO.
If people don’t like being called it maybe they shouldn’t openly support such behavior.
What makes someone a Leftist, vs an “authoritarian masquerading as a leftist?” What is “tankie ideology?”
JAQ elsewhere. Ample resources to look up.
My late edit had some keywords to can type in if you’re unfamiliar.
We just need to add a “person with” on the parenthesis and it will be understandable enough
Have you ever been around a child who gets some silly factoid in their head, but it’s completely wrong because children are still learning the very basics of synthesizing the observable world into coherent ideas?
Hexbears are like children who have spent the last six hours explaining to you over and over again that cows can breathe under water.
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.
Looks like it expired last month so they had a 1 month grace period
I am willing to bet that the contact person is either gone or not checking email. It wouldn’t surprise me if they lost access to the portal.
Ironic that it’s capitalism that’s going to take down Hexbear.
Yeah but on the other hand it’ll hardly be the first time this community has moved. Looking at the frontpage of chapo.chat the userbase doesn’t seem particularly bothered by the possibility.
That isn’t ironic. That’s entirely on brand. Ironic would be if they got taken down due to leftist infigh-actually, no, that’s also on brand. I guess if Trump - no, that would also…
…Is this what they mean by “irony-poisoned”?
I found some people alleging the sav.com is sketchy about other aspects of their service. It wouldn’t surprise me if they tactically overreacted to a single missed email, or a single expired credit card, or something like that, to squeeze their client for more money.
They noticed https://hexbear.net/post/4468531
Link doesn’t work given the domain.
True, this is the new domain https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
Holy smokes, that’s it after all those years.
