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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Bidding ends in 9 days.
Edit: Current bid is up to ~~$305~~ ~~$505~~ ~~$676~~ ~~$710~~ ~~$1920~~ ~~$2345~~ $2365
That's going to be crazy
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.
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.
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.
Theres also the possibility it's the owner of the scamcoin which is also named hexbear
aw that would've been funny
Unless someone is doing a very elaborate and well executed bit (not completely out of the question....) It might be hex.com bidding on it https://chapo.chat/post/4470270
The funny is back on
Yeah they let it slip towards the end lol
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.
Now I wanna raise a bunch of money to buy it and use it as a good way to document shitty behavior on the internet.
What a fascinating idea! Though I'd say there were many decent people there, I think.
To the moon. Still 9 days to go, now $676
Can you share a link to the auction?
It's in the post's body.
Oh...I guess I'm an idiot then...
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
Supposedly they don't bid.