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?

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    28 days ago

    So first, fans of an actually quite good (as I understand) leftist podcast got together on Reddit and started talking to one another.

    The dark forces that are at work on the modern internet can’t have something like that, so they invested a pretty tiny amount of resources into sidetracking the whole thing into pettiness, vicious bad-spirited trolling, and slavish adherence to the stupidest and hot-button-est of hot-button leftism issues available. Because of Reddit’s unique combination of anonymity plus unchecked power for the (also anonymous) mods, it worked perfectly, and the whole place became a loud and hostile waste of time.

    Still in waste-of-time form, the whole thing migrated over to Lemmy when Lemmy became available. It sits there festering, fueled by a combination of deliberate distortion by people who hate the left, people who just like having a community and stick around (avoiding the “bad” parts and politics), and people with some degree of mental illness who genuinely think Russia is good, attacking anyone who isn’t performatively left to the point of caricature is productive, and it’s everyone else who is the problem.

    Because, by this point, the only people around are fairly dysfunctional, they had some kind of falling-out with the person who had paid for their web hosting, who for the same reason had chosen a corrupt registrar, who tried to extort them for thousands of dollars. They refused, the registrar presumably abandoned the effort when whatever counter-troll had bid the price up didn’t bother to buy it at the wildly inflated price it landed at, and they got back the original domain and restarted as if nothing had happened.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    28 days ago

    First question that comes to mind is: did they get it back, or did someone else snatch it from them and also made it a Lemmy instance? Like, one of the conservative comms (forgot which instance; world or ee?) had the mods banned and a new mod took over and turned it into a satirical circle jerk thing where it’s making fun of conservatives/conservative memes.

    Edit: No… It does look like the OG. So it’s not that.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    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!

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    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.

    • BB84@mander.xyzOPEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Thanks! The link is helpful.

      Look like they got the domain back a while ago. Wonder why federation took so long.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    28 days ago

    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.

        • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish
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          27 days ago

          Read it was pork in another comment. a quick whois shows:

          $ whois hexbear.net
   Domain Name: HEXBEAR.NET
   Registry Domain ID: 2584175083_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.porkbun.com
   Registrar URL: http://porkbun.com/
   Updated Date: 2025-02-19T05:16:07Z
   Creation Date: 2021-01-12T00:35:22Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2026-01-12T00:35:22Z
   Registrar: Porkbun LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 1861
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 5038508351
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: NILE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
   Name Server: PIPER.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2025-04-01T08:45:05Z <<<
          • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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            27 days ago

            Hmm, the auction domain was sav.com https://lemmy.world/post/25448410

            I mean a whois as of now doesn’t tell us what it was. And I remember some statement from them. Probably in their main channel(?) saying they consider switching DNS registrars…

            I’m not that interested in Hexbear, so somone else has to look it up if we want a definite answer.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    28 days ago

    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.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      28 days ago

      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…

    • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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      28 days ago

      you know, normally I’d agree with your point, but not when the offending parties are actually deliberately disruptive jackasses whenever they show up. Hexbear is insufferable. that’s not a critique of their viewpoint, that’s a critique of their behavior. If you come into the sandbox and kick sand in other kids eyes on the regular, don’t be surprised when nobody wants to play with you. It’s a lesson you, they, and most others should’ve learned before middle school, and it has nothing to do with what political ideology they follow.