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hexbear.net is on sale for auction (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Couldn't somebody buy it and change it to force all the assholes out and then change things to make it a proper instance?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Idk how federation works, but I imagine the domain name isn't the only thing that ties the instanses together together?

    I could be wrong

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    nah they could, theyd just change it to their ip address, like the domain vendor deleted their ip address from the records when they didn't pay

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That's not how the Fediverse works. Instances are per domain, not per IP address. You can change IPs however often you want, as long as your domain points to the right server.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It would still be a different instance behind that same domain name

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That doesn't matter to fediverse software. Any new instance on hexbear.net would have errors when trying to federate with other instances, and it probably wouldn't be able to do so at all. But even if it did manage it, what are you expecting to do to mitigate the errors that arise from other instances referencing users/threads/posts/comments/communities/modlogs that existed on the old instance, but do not exist on the new one?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    referencing users/threads/posts/comments/communities/modlogs that existed on the old instance, but do not exist on the new one

    Yeah, that's what I was talking about. It would be a different instance that doesn't have the same database as the original one.

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