Relevant to note that every other bid comes from the same bidder, j_s_0e6b87. Here’s what I’m guessing about them:
- They likely know about Hexbear, since they were bidding on the address right off the bat.
- They aren’t a domain squatter. A domain squatter would try to minimise the amount of money spent on a domain; and yet they’re bidding too early, too frequently, and values considerably higher than the necessary to be the top bidder.
- They aren’t using automated tools, since the the times and values between the others’ bids and theirs are too erratic.
- Either they don’t plan to actually win the bid, OR they have lots of money (to the point that US$710 is pocket change for them) and really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
It narrows it down to people from instances that still federated with Hexbear and have money to spend on this stupid shit.
Nah, there are plenty of people on unfederated instances who still obsess endlessly about hexbear.
Hard to forget an instance that openly threatens to kill you. Hexbear is hateful garbage.
instance that openly threatens to kill you
Wtf kind of fedilore did I miss 😀
The said I was going to “get the wall” when they started their revolution, as in they were going to execute me with a firing squad. They also followed me around and down voted everything I posted, so I had to abandon that account.
I’m dead serious about it and also dead serious about hating them for threatening my life. Fuck them.
They’re exaggerating. Hexbear didn’t threaten to kill at all, it was just a warning to class traitors and other would-be counterrevolutionary protesters. The vast majority of the proletariat would never put themselves in such a position.
It’s a complete nothingburger.
They literally threatened my life, you’re ignorant or paid.
That’s fair, I agree with you, I just wanted to use the meme
Fair 😄
No it doesn’t. It could be Ted Danson. And I assume Ted Danson doesn’t even know about the fediverse.
It couldn’t be Ted Danson, surely?
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It’s a joke about the fact that there are a lot of people who have a thing against hexbear
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That’s the joke
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It implied it narrowed it down by a little
it didn’t tho
Could be some crypto bros. Apparently they share name with some crypto currency
I gave it a check, and apparently it’s a dead cryptocoin. CoinGecko doesn’t even list it, Etherscan gives it a market cap of $0.00, and the last transaction was 886d ago. Plus they already have a domain.
Huh. Hexbear, the instance, gets its namesake from this photograph:
I wonder how the cryptocurrency ended up with the same name.
That’s on brand, they do love their shitposting
It has only 34 holders. That narrows it down… to 34.
What? Ironic
It’s 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.
I bet j_s_0e6b87 has eggs at every meal
What the fuck man?
710$ is like 65% of my monthly expenses.
Daaamn my monthly expenses are like 2.5kUSD (5k split with my partner)
It’s 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.
That’s seriously out of touch, check your privilege.
I thought it was a joke.
There are a lot of people who genuinely believe shit like that, even on lemmy.
I really don’t believe that’s anywhere remotely close to true.
You not believing a thing, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening, it only means you’re either not paying enough attention, or choosing not to look, in all likelihood to preserve your own comfort. So I’ll say it again - take your head out your ass, and check your privilege.
You believe one thing and I believe another. Why don’t you take your head out of your ass and look around? Nobody seriously believes that nobody is struggling right now.
The other possibility is that its 2 hexbearites who are trying to save the site, not realising they are bidding against each other. Would be pretty silly if that was it.
I went and read the hexbear thread on this. Here’s some summary from over there:
- Current hexbear admins lost the domain because the registration was controlled by a single inactive / flaky admin.
- hexbear admin stated an intention to bid in this auction to get their name back.
- chapo.chat is a temporary domain solution only.
- they are also deciding on backup names if they don’t win the auction
23·11 days agoI have no idea where you are getting the intention to bid when the admins have repeatedly stated the opposite.
“During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts.”
That’s from the We Fucked Up thread on Chapo.chat
so they seem to have had at least some intention of bidding, but that was when it was under 1k.
hexbear admin stated an intention to bid in this auction to get their name back.
“If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.”
No one on hexbear is wasting money on the domain. The consensus is that the money is much better spent on mutual aid.
It’s now edging up towards $2500!
Ngl. I was tempted to drop up to $1K on them just to fucking take it out of their hands.
I don’t exactly like Hexbear, but I got to agree with one of its users that this sort of money is better spent on charity. Such as helping a child to get a prosthetic leg and medical attention.
Guys, they already switched to chapo.chat, all you’re doing is emptying your pockets to give to some criminals.
Didn’t their post say that domain name is also in the same situation?
Oh… I missed that, if so, and I don’t care enough to look back into it.
Fuck El Chapo, fuck his sons, and fuck his shitty criminal enterprise.
You realize this is just the name of the podcast the community spawned from right?
And largely moved away from, I might add.
And said podcast hated the reddit community as I recall.
No, I’ve never heard of that podcast but if they named it as a tribute to the Guzman family they can go fuck themselves too.
I mean, it’s in reference, not tribute. It’s not that serious dude.
They chose the name Chapo Trap House in the first episode as a joking reference to the Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and a slang term for a drug house, intending the title to sound like the title of a rap mixtape
Yeah is not that serious, but I have my reasons to tell them to go ride a dick and fuck themselves.
Also we need to stop talking about these people, paying tribute, referencing them, respecting them, etc.
I find it strange that they are out-bidding each other like this when there are over 8 days left. I am not too experienced with bidding, but I thought that the normal strategy was to maybe place a placeholder bid if there is no activity, but more generally one waits until the last second to set a reasonably high bid. Going on a 1v1 with fast out-bidding over a week early seems bad for everyone except the seller. Perhaps someone can explain.
I noticed the same - it is strange. And a lot of times they’re raising the prices much more than necessary to outbid each other.
In special, half of the bids come from a single person, j_s_0e6b87. They’re bidding since the beginning, and seem to follow no strategy - sometimes bidding $10 more than the top bid, sometimes way more. Either they’re stinking rich to the point they don’t care about the money, or they don’t really care about the address, and want to inflate its price for whoever actually buys it.
The bidding gets extra time when people place a bid near the end, so you can’t just snipe it.
Ah, bidding technology has advanced since I sniped Tony Hawk Pro-Skater for the Nintendo 64 on ebay. Why start bidding over a week early, though?
Nah eBay is still the same (sorry if I accidentally double posted)
Dude I remember the hype around the last 5 mins of a GBA game auction on eBay, only to taste the disappointment when the price like doubled in the last 10 seconds
Update: it’s now US$1921.00. Some PP (p_p_822628) is trying to outbid JS (j_s_0e6b87), who has been competing since the start.
there’s no way these aren’t troll bids.
I’m guessing one of them is a hexbear admin and the other is a troll.
The admins have stated that they don’t care about the domain, so it’s probably either a troll or the crypto coin people trying to gain the domain.
I’m out of the loop, crypto coin people? Is there a hexbear crypto or something?
Yep, though obviously unaffiliated. It’s why Hexbear is blocked in China IIRC.
Hexbear admins decided pretty much right away not to engage in the auction. The bidding war is probably between someone with too much money and hate for hexbear, and an agent of the auctioneer driving up the price.
Thanks, I updated
PIPI
To the moon!
This is a stable investment, right guys?..
Apparently they screwed things up, they try to get their domain back.
JavaScript and PeePee are really going at it, huh.
I have the feeling the first thing the new owner of this domain does is to get it the hell away from a domain stealing registrar.
They literally all do this if you lapse on paying your registration fees. It’s not like they seized it for other reasons and then auctioned it. Unlike whichever one we saw a while back seizing a fediverse domain for “CSAM” which literally amounted to a drawing of two high-school age girls kissing.
Someone is claiming to be the one of the bidders on hexbear right now
Probably a hexbear trolling other hexbears but w/e 🍿🍿🍿
Someone is going to be left holding the bag with a useless .net domain
Update? Seems hexbear is online again.
I’m kind of tempted to buy it…
Edit: you can’t tell me it wouldn’t be funny to host an instance the exact opposite of what hexbear stands for right now at its URL
Hell yeah, we need more ultrarightwing fascist sites!
I thought of a shudder ancap website
🤮 ancap
No, no we don’t. But it was $1900+ last I checked, so it’s too big expensive to buy just for the laughs. Well, for me anyway
But that’s what Hexbear already was. Nothing but a bunch of Fascists disguised as Communists.
Why admit you want to host a Nazi instance? Trump won’t fuck you.
Oh I don’t. I just want to troll the hexbear people. Make it opposite of what they are. It’d be hilarious
The opposite of hexbears ideology would be Nazis, you want to run a Nazi site.
Man Canada needs to just be the US’ 51st state. Birds of a feather and all that.
Exactly my point, I get the trolling aspect, but like… Seriously think about it for more then a moment lol.
A silly troll idea would be to do a non-hexigonal and non-bear related imagery lol.
I think the overwhelming majority of Hexbear users would rather the domain go to a silly joke troll like that than redirecting to something like a transphobic site.
I assume the op didn’t mean fascism, but they just bought into the general narrative around Tankie on lemmy being bad lol
But yeah exactly
That general narrative is pushed largely by ONE (or 2/3 at the most) user(s). While the supposedly evil tankies are just bing chilling on ml and lemmygrad
Tell me now dear viewers, who is the greater evil here?
I won’t name that filthy cunt because .world admins would love to silence non-establishment voices, but you can trace the anti-“tankie” posts and find them all the same
Fuck that. I’d rather die than be American.
What? Isn’t it a tanker instance? The opposite is one rooted in western isms. Either that or I don’t know as much about hexbear as I thought
Hexbear is Communist/Anarchist, the opposite would be fascist. That’s the joke.
Hexbear is the tankiest of the triad.
If “tankie” means Marxist-Leninist, then that’s Lemmygrad.ml.
Wouldn’t the opposite of Hexbear’s ideology be actual Marxism?
What no theory does to a mfer
It’s a joke - sort of. After all you have people there who support China which has a stock market and an investor class and is the opposite of what leftists should support.
What no theory does to a mfer
Why did China decide to do those reforms? Any ideas?
This is a common talking point among non-Marxists, hence why the other user implied you haven’t read theory. The thing is, Marx didn’t think abolition of Private Property was the goal of Communism, but one of the essential means of getting there. However, this does not mean it should be dogmatically over-applied at all stages in development, to the contrary, Marx’s entire prediction for Communism (and prediction it was, he didn’t design Communism and work backwards, but analyzed Capitalism and predicted what comes next) is based on how markets centralize over time into large trusts.
The goal of Communism is real improvements for the Working Class, the tools we should apply depends on what we are working with. Private Property and competition is a great way to quickly develop productive forces at lower stages of development, while Public Ownership and planning becomes more efficient once competition begins to die out. It’s like growing a vegetable and harvesting it, you watch over it and fold it into the public sector as it grows.
Private Property, like fire, is dangerous if not contained. This doesn’t mean we cannot contain it. If we understand how it functions, we can learn how to use it to better pave the way for eliminating it altogether. As an example, whoever controls the rubber ball factories has far less power than those who control the rubber factory. In the PRC, the overwhelming majority of large industry is in the hands of the government, as well as heavy industry like steel, banking, energy, and more. This is how the government holds Capitalists in line.
Overall, Marxists don’t apply a magical property to public ownership where being poor working in the public sector is better than bring well-off in the private. The fact is, systems must adapt to their present conditions, and change as those conditions change. The PRC, as an example, is seeing a dramatic rise in the cooperative sector of the economy from the Private, and while this isn’t the same as the Public Sector, it is a decrease in the power of Capitalists.
If you want, I can recommend some theory you can read to understand the why of Communism according to Marx and Engels.
No, Nazi.
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Cesspool for sale? Nice.
Losing your domain is elementary…lol
