hexbear.net comically loses its domain name

That stamp knows what it did.

What is with the weirdly shaped emojis.

I like how a whole community of academics and researchers worked out how to run a system which, even into the modern day which is kind of amazing, is largely disconnected from being abused by government and industry, and just runs according to what the people who need to use the system need it to do. You can get extorted for a fancy domain name if you really want to, but you can also go to Hostinger and get one for $5/year or something, because a lot of the core of the system is still pretty well-protected from being a cash-grab, through application of good governance and cooperation.

And then, somehow Hexbear managed to find their way around that system and fucked things up for themselves, and now it's all DNS's fault that they stepped in a pile of doo doo.

Never forget the architects of the internet were some of the vilest US MIC and Silicon Valley ghouls who ever lived and they are still in control fundamentally no matter how much ICANN and IANA claim to be non-partison, neutral, non-political, accountable, democratic, international, stewardshipismists

Yes, John Postel and David Mills were some of the vilest ghouls and so on. There was nothing about them that could provide a good model for how to do effective cooperation and succeed outside the systems of ownership that defined computing and telecommunications at the time, no particular reason they succeeded so dramatically and gave you, ultimately, this space to post pig balls today, and nothing about their work and traditions that needs to be defended against any silicon valley ghouls in the modern day. You fucking dingbat. I started out sticking up for you guys because no one deserves to get victimized by DNS scammers, but I take it back, go fuck yourselves.

If I didn't know this was chapotraphouse I would consider it an excellent shitpost.

I mean unlike housing, you don't actually need to pay for a domain name. There are plenty of free alternatives if you ill like paying for a TLD, and in lieu of that you could just memorise the IP, or even instruct people to change their hosts file.

I mean... OK then just remember the IP addresses of the sites you use and don't use the domain names?

You don't have to pay anything to have your own identity.

If you want someone else's servers to replicate a piece of information for you, and you want them to take responsibility for administrative issues like figuring out whether you still want it next year or what to do if you're doing something illegal, you may have to pay anywhere from $5 a year to $30 a year for the privilege depending on a couple of factors. Given how massively inflated the price of registering a domain could be, if the type of ghouls who like to get their hands on things like this were able to get their hands on it, I'm inclined to call that success. About 99% of internet users will never need to know or care about DNS, and they can still have their identity without having to pay $30 a year.

I'm pretty sure the price of domains has actually been going down over time, and they've introduced a bunch of new TLDs and new types of entries in the records in response to pretty much the only significant problems that the 40-year-old system has ever had during its history. Like I said, I'd call that success.

Tell me you have no idea how DNS works without saying you have no idea how DNS works.

You don't have to! You can run a DNS server out of your house and host any and all domain names you can think of!

Of course, nobody but you will use it, but it's the principle of the thing, right?

Thanks for that. In this day and age, hearing something positive is a bliss, even it’s just deradicalizing hexers.

They followed me around and down voted everything I posted for a while (memes, conversational comments, everything). Oh and they also threatened to kill me. Fuck hexbear and all its users.

In my experience these "containment" boards/servers/sections tend not to work.

Long term it basically just creates a place that attracts those you don't want, and becomes place for those ideologies to spread. Then it either gets bad enough they take over (you know the site) or they break off wholesale and form a new community dedicated to those worst impulses (pyrrhic victory at best).

The best policy is to actively moderate, and in the case of the fediverse, defederate, those groups and those that give them shelter.

Meh, they're just going to flood over into grad and .ml where they'll be welcomed with open arms.

Then all those ".ml's not that bad, they're kinda nice" folks will see that .ml mask drop and then finally .world will defed from the last of the Tankie Triad Dyad

What's the story with this place?

The common clay of the fediverse.

Yes, are you unaware of how Russian propaganda works?

They were established 4+ years ago just to cause the dnc to lose an election in 2024?

The DNC did not lose. We are the losers. You and me will feel the impact way more than well to do politicians.

The admins made a rookie mistake: they believed someone on the Internet.

"I'll do it tomorrow" means fucking never. Nah, bitch, do it TODAY.

ugh its back

They literally didnt pay their under 20$ a year fee for renewal, its their own fault for not having the domain be with the same person managing hosting, it's like amateur stuff to at least have them be an authorized user.

2347$ now

They were in contact with the dude who owns it a few times, wouldve taken minutes to add them as authorized users

(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.

None of them are communists, they're Tankies, tankies = authoritarians

They're not "far-left" they're authoritarian "communists" and by "difference of political perspectives" you mean denial of human rights abuses and suppression of freedom by authoritarian regimes (even denying they are authoritarian regimes) like China or even that Russia was totally justified attacking a country unprovoked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

That doesn't really clear anything up, tbh, I don't know what this is or why I care about their domain expiring this post did nothing to explain that

Well yea but what is it in this specific context? I have no idea what this is

I'd vote grad as worst, but it's certainly close.

Lemmygrad and tankies in general have military discipline while hexbear is a vibes-based mob. Authoritarians vs. virtue signallers, one taking over the other would mean popcorn for years.

Ah... I did not understand the auction link. I thought "expired" meant that the auction ended. I guess it describes the status of the domain.

Thanks

Edit: who tf downvoted me admitting my mistake and thanking for the clarification lol