4mo ago

Hexbear is back? What's the lore?

I am seeing posts from https://hexbear.net/ once again. Anyone know what happened since they lost their domain name? How did they get it back?

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https://chapo.chat/post/4472297
The issue was that the domain expired and the original user that set up the domain was MIA... but according to this like a month later the admin awoke from hiberation 🐻 and managed to restore the domain (it was enough of a grace period from the registrar to bypass the auction) and give the current admins shared access.
There were some ongoing server issues beyond that but as far as I know the issue appears resolved. Lemmy.ca is not federated with them so that's about as far as I'll look into it.
- Thanks! The link is helpful.
  Look like they got the domain back a while ago. Wonder why federation took so long.
Well, they lost it because it expired.
They probably repurchased it.
A whois says that the domain was reregistered on Feb 19th 2025 via porkbun.com.
EDIT: https://hexbear.net/comment/5974632
- What a dork. Glad my instance is defederated from that hot mess
- The link is helpful. Thanks!
.ml has some competition again
- https://files.catbox.moe/spkqhx.gif
- What's the hexbear take on the invasion of Ukraine? Genuinely asking you as someone who's from there.
- The news section there is great, and while there are a few comments that echo Russian stuff, that is easier to ignore than the massive USA liberal (conservative) views that dominate some other communities.
  In particular I like the middle east coverage .
- Sorry I should have clarified: not looking for Hexbear lore in general. I have seen a lot of Hexbear content, so I have a solid understanding on the site and the users. Don't want to start a debate about that here because that debate always turn nasty.
  What I am looking for is: what happened in the past month-ish? How did you all lost your domain? How and when did you get it back? Why did it take so long for federation to be back? Is there any other change made to the site during this downtime?
- don't see people in there praising putin or uncritically accepting every action that non capitalist governments do. What i do see is a lot of challenging the standard western capitalist propaganda narrative.
  That's nearly all I've seen. It appears to me much of the fault lies with critique by US American in particular who seem beyond nuance in politics (not having multiple political parties is perhaps the reason for that), you can be anti Putin (who is a complete cnut, that doeat mean ebery sungle russian is) and anti US (who are now complete cnuts for who they elected but doesn't mean every single citizen is).
  I like seeing the points of view so long may you continue!
- I snoop there from time to time, and while it does have a high population of minorities, there is people who are pro-russia. A lot fo people say they only have critical support, but I can't see how you could have even critical support of russia.
The admins got it back quite a while ago, the last bit of time has been ensuring smooth federation and using it as an opportunity to poll whether refederation was even what everyone wanted, as well as which style of federation (block list vs allow list, or none at all). Things are smoother now!
- Did they end up choosing block list or allow list? I hope it was the former. Allowlist will exclude small instances and harm federation diversity.
  
  They went with allow list as it used to be
  
  I believe they went with broader federation, though obviously with the defederated instances remaining blocked.
good to see them back tbh, it's nice to have lots of people around.
I'm glad they're back, people should be exposed to viewpoints outside their bubble by default. If your instance defeds from them, you are delegating your choice and freedom instead of owning it yourself.
- I'm on an instance that defeded hex, and I've got an alt on an instance that didn't. Literally nothing lost. The reason loads of instances defeded hex was their habit of brigading. Loads of bad faith arguments, shit talking people....even when they were agreeing with the points being made. Having seen what their contributions to the fed are, I'm glad to have a little less noise. Happy to discuss with people who have different views, but they don't tend to discuss, they are the equivalent of that one person that talks at you, not with you....
- That was a terrible take, I'm sorry.
- I didn't know pictures of pigs shitting on their balls were considered a viewpoint.
- I think that it doesn't matter if they're back or not, if you don't like them (not a huge fan myself) you can go to an instance that defeds them.
Thank you for reminding me how hilarious that was!
That whole domain lost thing only lasted for a week or so and then they got it back. I don't know how they did it, maybe it was still on hold. The registrar seemed a bit shady to me... But they were back online a few days after that incident.
- No, porkbun is legit.
  
  Wasn't it sav.com or something? Pretty sure it wasn't porkbun.

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