• _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    The rest of the Fediverse should put together a GoFundMe to buy the domain, and stick up a page with links to donate drones to Ukrainian soldiers, and care packages to families of Uyghur muslims detained in concentration camps in China.

      • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I wonder if the high bids will actually go through or if it’s just trolling. Definitely weird to give such big amounts of money away for a joke outside the space where it’s needed.

    • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
      01·
      3 months ago

      care packages to families of Uyghur muslims detained in concentration camps in China.

      So right to the pockets of Adrian Zenz?

    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      If I had the money I’d buy it and replace every post with goatse.

      EDIT: wtf the insane asylum is loose. Halp

      • Lunar@lemmy.ml
        01·
        3 months ago

        yes let’s sexually harass all those people depending on our mutual aid comm. you’re so righteous.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    1·
    3 months ago

    I am not writing this to shit on them, but I have to appreciate the irony in the situation. Something about a communist community getting messed up by lapses in individual responsibility, or an authoritarian leaning community getting messed up by fuckups in leadership.

    • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Lol some hexers got salty at your comment in particular

      (your comment copied)

      shut up dork

      Ikr. Its almost like we’re a bunch of shitposters not a hyper serious org

      Its almost like some people think they’re immune to critisism as long as they can fall back on “It was just a joke/shitposting bro my five paragraph political essay followed by another five paragraphs of heated debate in the comments was just memes bro why do the libs take us seriously”. Have these people ever heard the concept of Schrodingers asshole?

      • Zink@programming.dev
        1·
        3 months ago

        I tried to frame it like “huh that’s funny” and not as an insult. But it’s probably inevitable that some would take offense or just downvote to disagree. No issue with them.

        I’m not a hex/MLer, but I don’t try to antagonize them either. And even if I wanted to, I’ve been here long enough to know that the dogpile was still coming, lol.

        • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Good on you for trying to take the balanced center road, too many people here have tribalistic us vs them or nothing mentality.

          Me personally? I just don’t like hardcore extremist/radical people in general so im enjoying this, slight antagonism be damned.

          Anyone who thinks their group personally has the best solution to all of societies problems and human power inbalances. Or anyone who thinks that their group is the pinnacle of morality and virtue who can do no wrong. Or anyone who smugly tries to poke holes in every other competing idea or perspective while willfully downplaying valid criticism for their own tribal groups.

          I dislike arrogant idealist who think they’re better and smarter than the rest because they read a book or two on socioeconomic theory and went to a political science class in liberal arts college. I dislike self interest masquerading as false virtue and moral superiority. And yes, im talking about more than just tankies, lemmy is chock full of these same types just slight differences in the hats they wear.

          So Im getting a little bit of schadenfreude not because I care about their particular flavor of political extremism. Instead because its another group of smug pricks pushing another bullshit agenda while willfully dismissive of any inconvenient truths they dont like. Hexers just got a humorously ironic comeuppance for being the disorganized shitposters they pride themselves on being which is a big tasty cherry on top.

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
            1·
            3 months ago

            Can you go back in time and repeat this to me as a 20 year old? 😆 You’d be saving a number of people some real headaches.

            Although I will say almost all the actual card carrying commies I’ve met IRL have been wonderful.

            • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Alright I can do that for you grrgyle

              You might want to sit down and take some Tylenol. From what people keep telling me, a little bit of Time Trolling™ to retroactively rewrite a persons existence can cause nausa, vomiting, and or complete erasure from all timelines in somewhat rareish cases. Lets hope you don’t end up like Jermey, the poor bastard ended up in a really kinky paradox and got Time Goatsed™ for all eternity. Well anyways don’t worry im a professional so theres almost no chance of that happening… again… huh. WELPH Here… We… GO!

    • Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
      01·
      3 months ago

      spending hundreds of dollars on a domain to own the commies, that’s so epic chungus, take my updoot good sir

    • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      3 months ago

      Rent free.

      If you go to their megathread on the topic you’ll see that not only are they not bidding, they’re telling people not to bid on their behalf and go to their https://chapo.chat/c/mutual_aid comm and give the money to someone who needs it. So if you have 300+ bucks to set on fire please consider helping someone with their rent or groceries. Or on the kid from Gaza trying to raise money for a prosthetic leg. You’ll feel better than spending it on spite.

      • Ambii [She/her]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        Please someone cover my monthly expenses (equal to the current bid) . As a commie tankie trans girl this would own me epically

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    New update for those of you following this story

    We have established contact with the previously-AWOL owner, and after much discussion, we have determined that while there was an error in the auto-payment initially, the renewal funds were transferred manually to Sav and the auction continues despite that. We are currently appealing to Sav support with our domain credentials. We are also looking into whether an ICANN-compliant grace period was implemented prior to the rescinding and auctioning of the domain.

    • bastion@feddit.nl
      0·
      3 months ago

      this, exactly. That the communism site is being sold to the highest bidder is karma, just like the oppressive action of capitalism driving escapism into communism is.

      the raw reality is that neither pure communism nor pure capitalism will work. It’s like saying “top-down architecture is better than peer-to-peer architecture,” or vice-versa. it’s foolish. the right architecture depends on the situation being addressed.

    • GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml
      01·
      3 months ago

      I’d downvote you, but you’re at 9/11 upvotes/downvotes and I don’t want to ruin it

        • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
          1·
          3 months ago

          I think too many people claim to be “anticommunist” when they really should say they are “full on fascist”.

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
          1·
          3 months ago

          The tankies are out in full force on this thread and downvoting everyone the instant they comment, so it’s not as controversial as it looks. Just a handful of butthurt authoritarians.

    • cepelinas@sopuli.xyzlietuvių kalba
      0·
      3 months ago

      We should buy it and turnt into a Lemmy instance that’s only bears in hexagons.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      01·
      3 months ago

      Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works already exist tho

      Edit: oh, you edited your comment to “anti-authoritarian” instead of “anti-tankie.” Neither Lemmy.world nor sh.itjust.works applies now.

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This almost certainly won’t kill the Hexbear community, and frankly I don’t think there’s any way they will choose to pony up the auction money. This community has moved from reddit to discord to the fediverse and they’ll probably just be on their backup/original domain chapo.chat for a month or two before switching over to whatever the admins decide to switch to, and then it will be business as usual under a new name.

    Still there’s a lesson here about setting up a durable online community - don’t let someone control the domain registration with their personal account, you’re just asking for something like this to happen. If they don’t have one already the admins should set up some kind of organization that can “own” the new domain, donations, etc so that this can’t happen again.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      0·
      3 months ago

      For me, both redirect to chapo.
      With different messages on top that aren’t friendly to hexbear.
      WTF is going on here?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        01·
        3 months ago

        Hexbear has taglines that contain some of the funniest things said about Hexbear, or just funny in general. This is standard for Hexbear, if you refresh the page the taglines change.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      3 months ago

      They probably survive, but they will basically be switching infrastructure and losing all sorts of shit, so their size will be much smaller and weaker.

        • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          3 months ago

          I hate downvotes because they are super arbitrary and oftentimes really petty. Obviously I recognise they can be useful to weed out horrible and discriminatory stuff, but often they are used as a sort of “disagree” button.

          The beauty of lemmy though is can be (and am) on an instance with downvotes disabled . So have the exact same experience except only upvotes are possible.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Tankies think downvoting and taking over internet forums is praxis and that “anarchkiddies” don’t read theory. Karl Marx and Stalin said take over reddit communities and downvoting is the first step of transitioning into communism.