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Edit edit: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531

Welp

https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If I had disposable income, I would massively overbid everyone and just replace the server with a photo of Winnie the Pooh.

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 12 points 10 months ago

Just host a redirect to Wikipedia page of Tiananmen square?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OMG that would be hilarious, I am definitely not considering taking a loan out for this lmaooo

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Can you imagine talking with a bank accountant to sign off on that loan?

"So are you looking to invest in a personal buisness or a down payment on a car or maybe invest in an asset? So what is it cm0002? What would this capital be going towards, what plans do you have to properly utilize this investment?

"I want to win a online auction so I possess a domain name of a niche internet fourm populated by mentally unwell politically extreme nutjobs and general morons. From there I may use the domain to redirect its user to a funny picture insulting them, I dunno havent thought that out too hard yet but the tankies will be fucking OWNED by the time in done with their precious domain." "...."

"...."

"...."

"Okay I guess I can scrape their private information and sell it to the highest bidders, im sure theres a few advertisers and government agencies that wouldn't mind paying to add some names to a list."

"..."

"..."

"Your interest rate for this 12,000$ loan will be 43% and pray I dont alter the deal further. Sign the line and get out of my face you fucking peasant. Have fun paying this off for a quarter of your lifetime."

[–] IonicFrog@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The way to do this is to setup a non-profit or some other kind of organization. Call it the Touch Grass Foundation. An organization dedicated to getting intensely online people to go outside and touch grass. From there you can point to a membership paying dues and donations to secure the loan.

Really, this is the way fediverse instances should be setup if they are serious about longevity and community. If hexbear had proper governance, they wouldn't be in this situation. I don't think the paranoid is comfortable with that level of transparency though.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Maybe being held by Putler with heavy makeup?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LOL @ “It’s because capitalism ruined DNS”

https://chapo.chat/post/4468515

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

DNS is enough to ruin DNS, it doesn't need help from any outside influence.

Source: It's always DNS.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How could it ever not be DNS?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So... How did they lose the domain?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Word on the Lemmy-verse is that the admin in charge of the infrastructure went MIA and someone was waiting to snatch it as soon as it expired and threw it up for auction

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Who bought (or almost bought) InfoWars? Was that The Onion? Someone should let them know!

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Auction is up and going everyone LMAO

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

$300? That's the best you can do?

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's more than doubled since I went to bed last night. Over $700 now.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's all the way up to $305 now! Things are heating up! Will it get to $310?

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't they just move to Hex-bear.co or something if they lose this one?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Possibly, but if whoever buys it does something funny with it, I will still be highly amused.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'll wait out the auction and grab it if it's reasonable.

Hell, someone just start a gofundme and we can collectively buy it and hand the name over to blahaj, just for the lulz.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Hell, someone just start a gofundme and we can collectively buy it and hand the name over to blahaj, just for the lulz.

LMFAO I'd pitch in some money to see that lolol

[–] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm OOTL on hexbear. I know its tankie, but wasn't it a continuation of the chapo trap house subreddit which was was leftie memes? And chapo trap house started from supporters of the podcast, which is run by Democratic socialists. How did the community get so tankie?