This is amusing, but one guy from the crosspost raised a valid problem:
If the hexbear domain fully dies, then all the idiots kept in containment by defederation will start jumping ship to other instances, and start causing trouble for users and moderators.
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Right. I don't mind people wearing certain red hats. It lets me know right up front what to expect. Reddit had the same dilemma once upon a time where specific subs were banned, and that just forced the roaches to hide in unknown areas where once you knew exactly where to find them all.
Could not happen to a nicer bunch.
Truly salt of the earth
What's the story with this place?
Lemmy, in general, is left leaning with the lead dev and "main" instance being unabashedly tankies.
Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there. The ml crowd is generally still worth talking to. Whereas the hexbear crowd immediately jump to harassment the moment they decide you failed a purity test because you advocated for a social program rather than insisting the entire system needs to be burned down and a managed economy run by putin put in its place.
Needless to say: Anyone who spends enough time "on lemmy" is either on an instance that banned hexbear or muted them themselves.
Appreciate the explanation. I've seen some remarks about the instance in passing, I've just never paid close enough attention to how communities have interacted with each other in the past.
I leave em, it's fun to watch them go and post their stickers, it's almost like twitch chat
Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there.
No, no. They're a group of posters so awful they got banned from Reddit.
And let's be honest, you can be pretty much the worst person on earth and survive in your own little bubble on Reddit, but, for whatever reason, they couldn't.
I feel attacked lmao, reddit automoda/policy is abusive now, I commented on a front page post with an alt and it permbanned 3 of my 10 year old accounts instantly no appeal. I kinda do like that they forced me to give lemmy a second look.
The mods just ban ppl willy nilly, how am i supposed to keep track of what banned me, if they have detection tools they should be able to auto ban my alts or hide those subs from my view or better yet not even let me comment on them, instead they asssume evasion and perm ban your ip.
When I accidentally interacted with one of their communities, it basically felt like a tankie 4chan. After that I just banned the entire instance.
cunts, tale as old as time
Heartbreaking: The Worst Capitalist Practice You Know Just Accidentally Picked A Funny Target
... if DNS is the worst capitalist practice you know of then you REALLY should spend less time shitposting and more time paying attention to the world.
(It's a joke/reference, I guess it's not 100% known though. My bad.)
I really do hate "I know what I have so you are going to pay whatever number I set" capitalism though, which is what they do here. These registrars figured out a loophole around the redemption grace period and are, from the start, set up to make you lose the domain and then spend significant money on a completely unfair auction where they have the power to plant fake bids, rather than paying the usual static redemption fees that aren't that excessive.
Yes... but the meme doesn't work if said practice is barely on the scale.
Because yeah, there are some REALLY sketchy registrars. Working with the "reputable" ones and now taking advantage of a nation's country code for the lulz (see: .ml) keeps you pretty safe.
Tired: Lenin’s on sale again
Wired: Hexbear is a shitcoin
And here I was complaining about cheeseburger.social going down. Our user count was well into the dozens. Dozens!
So this is a man-in-the-middle attack waiting to happen isn't it? Buy the domain, setup a reverse proxy that points to the original hexbear server IP and start logging all requests.
Probably. In all honestly, if you are a hexbear user, I'd be keeping a careful eye on who owns the domain when it magically pops back up.
I need a reminder of what hexbear is about. I recall something... off.
Tankie instance
They're part of the Tankie Triad (.ml, lemmygrad, hexbear). Quite possibly the worst of the triad
Insert oh-no-well-anyway meme here.
So.... who's outbidding them? Someone from tankiejerk? Or are their being taken over by lemmygrad, to be introduced to Socialism with Dessaline characteristics?
Oh it couldn't have happened to a better bunch! 😈
lol.