Hexbear.net now at 710$ (Update: it’s now 1921$)
figure before $
image shows conventional placement of $ before figure
Can someone explain selective blindness of where to place the dollar sign ($) when correct examples stare people right in the face?
At least it reflects the way the number is said. How would you “it would cost them dollars 1921”?
Convention is different everywhere, $ value and value $ are both seen in Canada for example, former being more common in English, latter in French
Like . vs , for decimal notation, people are going to use what they’re familiar with.
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.
PIPI
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.
Thanks, I updated
To the moon!
This is a stable investment, right guys?..
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!
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
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.
Wouldn’t the opposite of Hexbear’s ideology be actual Marxism?
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
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 the tankiest of the triad.
Hexbear is Communist/Anarchist, the opposite would be fascist. That’s the joke.
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 said podcast hated the reddit community as I recall.
And largely moved away from, I might add.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No it doesn’t. It could be Ted Danson. And I assume Ted Danson doesn’t even know about the fediverse.
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 😀
That’s fair, I agree with you, I just wanted to use the meme
Fair 😄
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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
I know. I didn’t think too much about my joke so i just deleted it now, lol.
It implied it narrowed it down by a little
it didn’t tho
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
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.”
7·2 hours agoI have no idea where you are getting the intention to bid when the admins have repeatedly stated the opposite.
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
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.
Apparently they screwed things up, they try to get their domain back.
Can someone explain to me what hexbear is?
Hexbear is (was) an instance that’s become infamous for the awful behaviour of its users in other instances in the past. They are mainly authoritarian communists (often known as Tankies) who like to yell at people for having different opinions and especially love to troll.
To expand on this for those who weren’t around during the days when they were federated with most instances, Hexbear’s users are needlessly hostile towards anyone who disagrees with them, they had a bug that caused their emotes to become oversized on Lemmy which quickly flooded threads when their users spam them, and they have a reputation for brigading threads to “dunk” on people. They also really like to flood threads with graphic images of pigs shitting on their own testicles, because that’s definitely what normal people do.
It’s worth noting that they don’t federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they do so in order to dunk on people and “dismantle Western propaganda” and “plant the beans of truth in other instances fields” and in general act in bad faith. Worse, their instance admins did little to stop this.
They were defederated from many instances for good reason, as their behaviour drove away a lot of new users. A lot of Hexbear users have alts on lemmy.ml and midwest.social, so the defederation doesn’t stop their users from continuing to be dickheads.
And if you’d like some receipts, I have plenty of examples. Best viewed from an instance that federates with Hexbear, so you can see their behaviour for yourself.
https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347 https://lemm.ee/post/4543536 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2017079 https://lemmy.world/post/2498330
Edit: A tankie already got upset about this post, love to see it! :P
An extremely outspoken instance filled with people who simp for fascist dictatorships but ultimately consider themselves communist and some socialists.
Most would call them “tankies” due to their willful denial of the 198(9) Tiananmen square massacre as “western propaganda” despite non-western sources agreeing it happened outside of China.
Imagine if super outspoken trump supporters had an instance and spent a lot of time trying to lecture other people about how they’re wrong when nobody spoke to them in the first place, then when presented with facts and logic they would respond with gifs, emojis, and a lot of claims that you’re a CIA front/shill.
The “June 4th incident” was in 1989, not 1984, and neither Hexbear nor China says it never happened. Hexbear’s stance, and most Marxists in general, on Tian’anmen is that hundreds of protestors and PLA officers were killed in Beijing that day as the PLA advanced towards the square, but that the square itself was evacuated peacefully, which matches leaked US cables and the CPC’s official stance on what it calls the “June 4th incident”. This is a rejection of the commonly reported story of 10,000 people being killed on the square itself, which originated from a British diplomat’s cable. Said diplomat was later confirmed to have evacuated well before.
I reiterate, Hexbear’s stance isn’t that the massacre didn’t happen, but that Western nations intentionally sensationalize the quantity of deaths and the character of the events. This is also why Western Nations don’t frequently report on the South Korean Gwang-Ju massacre that occured around the same era, where the South Korean millitary murdered thousands of High School and College students protesting against Chun Do-Hwan’s dictatorship. All of what I said is backed up by the Wikipedia page for Tian’anmen Square Protests and Massacre, such as Alan Donald revising his estimate from 10,000 to the low thousands yet BBC continuing to report the 10,000 figure:
In a disputed cable sent in the aftermath of the events at Tiananmen, British Ambassador Alan Donald initially claimed, based on information from a “good friend” in the State Council of China, that a minimum of 10,000 civilians died,[237] claims which were repeated in a speech by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke,[238] but which is an estimated number much higher than other sources provided.[239][240] After the declassification, former student protest leader Feng Congde pointed out that Donald later revised his estimate to 2,700–3,400 deaths, a number closer to, but still much higher than, other estimates.[241]
You’re also just wrong about what fascism is and what AES states were structured as, so I recommend Blackshirts and Reds.
1984 massacre 700 gorzillion dead gommunism no iphone Animal Farm vuvuzela.
Checkmate tankies.
1989
Specifically authoritarian communists, to be clear. They aren’t fighting for everyone to have what they need, they just want to be leaders of repressed people.
They’re called tankies
It’s an instance for Communists. Unpopular with the liberal/moderate Lemmy crowd.
It’s unpopular with actual leftists as well. Because it’s a toxic mess.
What is an “actual leftist?” Why would Hexbear not count as Leftist?
Personally I suspect that Hexbear is inundated with bot farm trolls, but that’s not what I was getting at. I meant that despite what said trolls insist, one does not have to approve of Hexbear to be a leftist. Many leftists (not centrists or liberals, but proper leftists) take issue with Hexbear.
But yeah, Hexbear also gives zero shits about human rights. They mostly seem to be about breaking up any left-of-center coalitions that they can.
I haven’t seen any evidence for “bot farm trolls” on Hexbear and I use it, but either way the framing of the statement implies directly that Hexbear aren’t real Leftists, and that if one is a “real” Leftist that they should take issue with Hexbear.
Maybe take a look around the call center.
Funny, but doesn’t actually answer anything.
Because leftists usually defend human rights, and the authoritarian regimes defended by some people on Hexbear (but also lemmygrad and ml) tend to attack those human rights when they are in the way of their ideology (not unlike the far right politicians).
That’s very vague and doesn’t really say anything though. Why should someone listen to your take on it?
It’s complete nonsense. Hexbear/lemmygrad/.ml have views that are consistent with pretty much every real life communist party, especially those in the global south.
If you don’t like communism that’s fine, but these textbook social democrats proclaiming themselves to be the true leftists are a joke. I think they just like the leftist label without having to actually walk the walk.
I’m aware. The “tankie” instances have stances that are overwhelmingly in line with Marxist orgs and parties worldwide, so the “anti-tankie” users either need to admit to just being anti-Marxist or try to honestly learn more.
@Cowbee From what i saw, i don’t see why you define yourself as leftist because your upvotes say otherwise and you didn’t apologize nor tried to amend for it because it wasn’t your. But you upvoted it.
It was a post where some hexbear account insulted me.
Don’t know what you’re talking about, to be honest. Do you have a link?
Not much more reasons that listening to yours, we are just some pseudonyms sharing opinions on a public forum.
I feel that your comment was so vague it didn’t end up saying anything though.
Pretty sure they mean “actual leftist” as in “not just liberals and moderates.” Because there are plenty of instances with an axe to grind against Hexbear for their bad behavior.
Thx!
A Communist/Anarchist instance.
Thx!
No problem!
People who don’t like their ideology tend to say that they are a tankie community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Thx!
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Cesspool for sale? Nice.
