• melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    Just add the following line to your host file and add an override to your DNS:

    37.187.73.130 hexbear.net

    Problem solved, this is how we did it in 1985.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Stop giving them attention. That’s the only thing they care about. If a tankie wants to have a ‘debate’ with you just say ‘ok’ and move on.

    They have no power or any effect on anything. By making them seem bigger than they really are (some niche leftist nutjobs) you only attract new cultists looking to sate their moral superiority kink.

    • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      DNS caching at play. The registrar has pointed it to their own nameservers, and that gets cached in lots of places.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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        2 months ago

        Ooooh. That explains it. Yeah, it just switched over to the redirect to sav.com for me.

        I think they’re fucked. Because of how Lemmy does federation, there’s no way that I know of to switch the domain for an existing instance without changing the name and making everyone resubscribe to everything. Although, they probably talk mostly to one another so they could probably change the name to hexbear.social or something with just a little temporary disruption if they don’t feel like coming up with $300. Personally, I definitely wouldn’t want to cooperate with the domain extortion, I’d rather change domains.

        • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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          2 months ago

          They should be able to still recover the domain. From the top of the page “To renew this domain, please sign in to your Sav.com Account”.

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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            2 months ago

            I think they now have to win the auction, though. It’s $300 to renew for the year currently, and still rising, instead of the $12 it was going to be.

            I do not think anyone should bid the price up. Hexbear may be a bunch of cunts, but all you’re doing with that is giving money to some criminals who are much worse than the Hexbear people.

            • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 months ago

              How are they criminals? Its the domain selling site lol, they didn’t pay a cheapass 12$ renewal with a years notice, its their own fault?

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      For me, both redirect to chapo.
      With different messages on top that aren’t friendly to hexbear.
      WTF is going on here?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        Hexbear has taglines that contain some of the funniest things said about Hexbear, or just funny in general. This is standard for Hexbear, if you refresh the page the taglines change.

  • crawancon@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    don’t think I’d give you a dollar for that even if it was signed by Kenny loggins.

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      As @Sunshine@lemmy.ca mentioned it’s now at $505.

      What’s up with j_s_0e6b87? (Let’s call them JS). If they really want the address that’s the wrong way to go - bidding too high, too early, too often, and in a bidding war against everyone else. A better approach is to wait until the last hours and then try to snip it.

      Unless their goal is to raise the prices this way?

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        Wouldn’t it be better to agree whatever bit yall want to do with the domain name and spend the money on something more productive? Here’s a father trying to buy his kid a new leg after Israel blew it off.

        I speak for all of hexbear when I say the domain isn’t worth that much, and losing it to capitalism is a funny bit, redirect it 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.

        Losing it to some anticommunist “left” weirdo to flex how much money they are willing to waste on an internet grudge instead of helping literally anyone is less funny.

        • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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          2 months ago

          I’m j_s_0e6b87 aka JS. Linking r/neoliberal? Pfffft, not even close! I want to Make Hexbear Great Again. It’ll talk about the wonders of NATO, and how Israel is doing the right thing (if you disagree you’re Antisemitic and a living proof of the horseshoe theory). I also want to denounce the horrors of mayocide and shitty image reactions, plus insert the Nazi 14 words there otherwise it’s literally 1984. (Just kidding.)

          Okay, serious now. I don’t know what’s up with this bidding war; this shit is weird. Currently the highest bid is at US$710, that’s 200x more than I have in my wallet*. And it’s perfectly possible that the bidders are all doing it for different reasons: perhaps they believe that it had enough traffic to justify the price, or they want to recover it for your instance, or they are indeed in some weird vendetta.

          And if it’s a vendetta it could be for a thousand reasons. It could be anticommunism, but it could be as well some HB user behaving like a wild monkey outside your home instance and getting someone pissed enough to do this stupid shit.

          *R$20, or roughly US$3.50. Yup. If I had some money I’d gladly donate to Karim.

          • chickentendrils@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I mean they just try to collect the highest bid and then ban you if you don’t pay. I’m thinking it’s just someone fucking around.

            Edit: yeah I’m guessing this is it. If you social engineer support and pretend to be them… Seems like John Smith is the bidders’ name on the site, before they turned me away.

      • TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        JS has bid 26 times now without missing a beat. It’s up to $2,345. That’s insane… and with 8 days left! Like bruhh what?? I refuse to believe they genuinely want to purchase it vs just driving up the price.

        • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Same, it’s going to be an intense 9 days from now on. The finale is a great mystery as to how will everything turn out. What will be the final price? Will people cancel their bids? What will be shown on the new site? Who’s the one bidding? Who will win? And all the drama and arguing in the meantime too. Lemmy’s going to be busy.

        • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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          2 months ago

          It’s a popcorn fest for everyone! Including Hexbear users, they clearly don’t give a fuck about the address itself.

          My guesses are, in order:

          1. Same as you, they’re just driving up the price. They’ll stop bidding near the end.
          2. They genuinely want the address because they have some really bad bone to pick against HB, and they have more than enough money to waste on it.
          3. Some really clueless HB user wants the address, even if their own admins said to not bother.
    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      If the highest bidder refuses to pay up, will it pass to the next one down?
      Cause I feel lile some of those higher bids would just evaporate and it’d make perfect sense to place say a 500 bid rn (1920) just in case, if you were so inclined to decorate the domain after aquisition

      Edit: And also it would mean you could start a bidding war with hexbeareans to drive up their cost to the maximum they would pay, without any risk to yourself as long as you remained anonymous

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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        2 months ago

        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.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          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”?

        • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Serious question: if this happened to a popular federated instance (say Lemmy.world) and it got bought by someone malicious, what’s the worst they could do to my Lemmy feed and the Lemmy community in general?

      • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.