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Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

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hexbear.net is on sale for auction (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverselore

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not much. The domain isn't the server. Hexbear will be fine, under another name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Theoretically, they would be able to phish users for their credentials, which if the users used across other sites, they could then reuse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How do other servers identify themselves on ActivityPub other than the domain? Is there some cryptographic key pair?

[–] Shadow 7 points 3 days ago

Yes there's a crypto keypair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That, I do not know.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago

I bet its just domain. Anything else is too complicated for admins

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Create a frontend that has a proprietary algorithm and ads. Completely shut down .world from the rest of the fediverse and then do whatever they want.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Not much than any other server can already do, for which you could block them if they post spam or host illegal stuff etc..