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Hexbear's domain has expired and the admins can't get ahold of the original registar. Currently up for auction at 20 bids and $550.

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

Edit: Their new domain is chapo.chat. Probably should let admins know so they can defederate them again.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago

>want a planned economy
>can't plan for shit
Truly an auth left moment

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Least incompetent tankie moment

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Get that name, and turn hexbear into a wholesome instance for gay men or something!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

CGP Grey's "Hexagon is the Bestagon" video and add a lot of BEARS 🐻

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Hmm.

I assume that they could refederate under a new domain name, but I have no idea how the Threadiverse deals with an instance changing its domain name. Probably not well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That's going to be a nightmare honestly if they do. Since there are so many Servers now with a big stick in their ass about defederation and only Defederated Hexbear after a lot of persuasion. This will probably end up giving their instance a second chance on many instances which defederated them before.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] We may want to be on the lookout for their new domain whenever they migrate to it.

Edit: Their new domain is chapo.chat, we should probably block them before they try to refederate with us and spam our users.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Please stop @ing the admins. We know about this. We will defederate if necessary.

Edit:

It appears that sh.itjust.works is not on the allowlist for chapo.chat. Just in case, we have added them to our blocklist anyway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I was less thinking "they might become refederated and have content reach instances that wanted to defederate" and more "what happens at a protocol and database level if one just changes a domain name, updates the X.509 certificate, and then refederates?" I mean, I don't know how other instances deal with that, whether it can create problems. IIRC from past discussion, there are user keys somewhere in the protocol, and I assume that those would now be identical and collide across old and new instances, for one...

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

I'm sorry, the whativerse?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Threadiverse -- the threaded conversation Reddit-alikes on the Fediverse. Lemmy, kbin, mbin, piefed.

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

thx for TIL Tal :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.

Lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Snowpix 4 points 3 days ago