If any users have purchased domain names they can transfer to us now, or share the account credentials for the domain host please message me so i can add the domain you have to the list of options for a domain change.
Hello users of hexbear, or shall i say chapo.chat, we fucked up, and i fucked up like three times making this post.
Yes, hexbear.net has expired. Yes, we were aware of this possibility. We have gradually lost contact with the access owner (prior admin) for the domain registration. We attempted to make a migration plan, but we were disarmed by the reappearance of the party in question in September 2024 and repeated assurances that they would a) transfer credentials and b) continue payments until they were able to do the former.
We accept full responsibility for this. We should have been more aggressive about this and continued our alternative despite these reassurances. This is our fuck up, and we can’t offer anything besides our continued apologies and our plan of action going forward and an explanation of what happened:
Over the time of chapo.chat and hexbear.net the admins that purchased the domain, established the donation accounts, and the server accounts have left. One of the primary admins has gone inactive and returned many times, over a year ago some of the newer admins began asking the older admins to give full access to the domain, servers, and donations. These requests were not met, despite warnings of this exact event.
At the moment we do not have access to hexbear.net and there is a strong chance we will not get it back without participating in the auction, which is already over $300. Choosing to abandon the hexbear.net domain will cause federation problems and considerable technical issues which would lead to potential extended downtime.
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. This would be distributed among a number of admins so that we can prevent this from happening again.
Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.
I will do my best to answer questions
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Pinning @piggy@hexbear.net comment:
True Hexbear Fedayeen have hexbear hard coded in their hosts file and are currently enjoying their
On OSX/Linux just add
37.187.73.130 hexbear.netto the bottom of/etc/hostsand you’ll get your back.On Windows its at
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hostsOn Phones it’s much harder so all your
are lost.I’d like to reignite the
struggle session to cover for CARCOSA on this oneTHERE IS TOO MUCH BEANISPOSTING ON THIS SITE
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I’m fuckin back babyWhy don’t some emoji work?
Adding a static DNS entry on your router also works.
Call me silly, tell me to touch grass, but hexbear has been a big part of my life for a few years now.
I don’t want to see anyone go away, and i have faith we’ll be back up in whatever form before long. Yall have given me so much over the years, and been by my side as I grow, through all my ups and downs.
Idk, feels like i had more to say, but lost my train of thought. Outside hangin with the corgi rn.
I love you all, and can’t wait until we’re back in whatever form.
O7
I couldn’t agree more. This site has such a palpable culture of solidarity permeating even the silliest bits and struggle sessions. It’s a safe space on an internet that largely lacks them, and a social site without the corporate overlords breathing down our necks. I love this place and hope it makes it <3
USAID funding gets slashed
Hexbear mysteriously loses access to the site owner
hmmm
The news megathread actually started getting predictions right for the first time in it’s existence, the feds had to shut us down lol. Not worth funding anymore.
I called it.
oh my god it was a honeypot all along
(idk i seem to remember some drama about the original site owner getting booted due to some allegations about his DMs and he surrendered the domain to the modocracy… I always wondered if the transfer of ownership happened and I guess the answer is a resounding no)
I don’t think it’s really a big deal beyond the work it’ll take to fix things, honestly don’t let yourselves get dragged into a bidding war with some lib or something that wants to fuck with us.
that is my personal stance, and i want to see what the community wants to be named
I propose hasan.lib
here are some domains that are unregistered:
hexbear.xyz hexbear.chat hexbear.red hexbear.space hexbear.club hexbear.love hexbear.lol hexbear.earth hexbear.farm hexbear.fun hexbear.gg hexbear.land hexbear.life hexbear.quest hex.horseIf it becomes hex.horse I’ll photoshop a hexagonal horse. This is my pledge to the community.
hex.horse
Hexbear.love getsy vote
A potential side effect of a new domain would be being unbanned in China, right? Because we’re only banned there because they thought hexbear.net was related to some crypto scam by the same name?
correct
Would be a fun twist
Instead of hexagonal bears… how about we go with… monkeys… struggling with boredom…
jojamart.com already taken
are most or all the participants in the auction outsiders?
as far as i know
Personally the name hardly matters to me at all, we just need to move on quickly
can dirt.owl be a domain?
Well, here’s a few of my suggestions :)
https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/351941ba-c4cd-42d9-9ec7-12802d1d9d4f.png
- honeybear.space
- honeybear.site
- hexbean.net
With honeybear, honey.tube could be bought for around $100 but the yearly cost will be $22.
Lib.vote
I love the flag but I am way too Spanish and English brained to remember the name zheleznogorsk lol
Oh that flag is cool as hell
I mean, perhaps if the domain is cheap enough, just wait until the last minute to snipe it.
If you have a look at the How Auctions Work page on there, you’ll discover that the rat bastards have set it up so that the auction only ends 5 mins after the final bid is placed, meaning it’s impossible to truly snipe it if someone else is watching at the end.
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Doesn’t seem worth it to buy the domain again and it sounds like we’re looking at downtime no matter what.
On the bright side we have the opportunity to absolutely lose our fucking minds over renaming the site again.
Personally fond of onesixone (numeric abbreviation for anti-fascist action in case yall didn’t know) as a name. Just goes hard imo
On the bright side we have the opportunity to absolutely lose our fucking minds over renaming the site again.
I still remember making my account intended as a bit campaigning for the site name to stay chapo and then just never making another account
At least we outlived kissinger
lmao
Genocide Joe’s presidency and Kopmala’s kampaign too
Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net
Hexbear.chat
Actually not bad
dialectics
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Would make it a lot easier for people, who are currently in the dark about current events, finding this place again.
FINALLY! Finally it is time for hereshowberniecanstill.win
Do we not have the other half of the meme? Something we should rectify on the new raebxeh.net
Obvious option would be hexbear with an alternative to .net, like .su or something. Although sometimes .su gets auto flagged as malicious since there isn’t a Soviet Union anymore, idk
I have a friend who is willing to help us get hexbear.su. I don’t have a Russian passport, so the stability will be an issue, but we could get it for the bit. Should I pursue this?
Never mind, I didn’t realize that an Amerikkkan passport works for .su
I think the best option is some variation of hexbear as opposed to a whole new name. The only problem I could see from that is if whoever ends up buying the original domain redirects it to something horrible. Probably wouldn’t want a similar domain name in that instance.
Anything in the
.cn,.vn, or.lanamespaces would be funny, for obvious reasons..cnis quite expensive, about $32/year, and requires you to either prove your identity or use a registrar (like 101domains) who will register it under their contact information for you..vnand.laare much cheaper and are available to anyone.Pick your path, we’re either Chinese, Vietnamese, or Laos bots.
—So are you Chinese or Vietnamese?
—We’re Laotian.
—The ocean? What ocean?
From Laos, stupid! It’s a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It’s between Vietnam and Thailand, okay? Population: 4.7 million.
Is .su available?
Yes, but it requires you to verify your identity with pictures of your passport which I’m sure no one wants to do for security reasons.
No Cuba? Idk what the rules are
E: someone get kama.la for this website I beg you
donothing.win
Honeypot. [whatever] would be fun since we van keep the bear motif
some domains available:
honeypot.capital honeypot.cafe honeypot.party honeypot.zone
Would it be possible to contact the toots.matapacos.dog people and agree to share a second-level domain with them? So Hextube would become live.matapacos.dog, Hexbear could become… I’m not sure. It could take over matapacos.dog — which is currently just a static image of Matapacos that redirects to readsettlers.org after a few seconds — or Hexbear could take on any number of subdomains under matapacos.dog.
Put simply, with this approach we’d sort of pull a blahaj.zone vs lemmy.blahaj.zone and have two distinct fediverse instances sharing a “brand” without actually being the same site per se. When these two instances already have such close ties, I don’t see why we shouldn’t try to pool more resources, up to and including sharing a second-level domain, right?
…Or maybe this is a terrible idea and I’m just talking out my ass.
beanis.chat
hexbear.red
Chapo.chat
this domain name has the same issue that caused the hexbear.net outage
communismwill.win
- littleredbook.shop
- littleredbook.exchange
- littleredbook.study
Redirects to bluebear.ltd, is this some hexbearian’s site?
Hmm. Hexbeanis.net?
hexbear.zone
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stacking.rocks
chapo dot chat
exbear.netis available and you could make ith.exbear.netHexbear.lgbt
Hexbear dot Chat
Hexbear dot io is a bitcoin website btw.
For this reason, we probably need to avoid anything Hexbear related
Hear me out… icosahedronbear.net
exbear.net septbear.chat hexchap.chat
We should steal hexbear.ntt from NTT
Are we able to use .SU?
hexbear.social
reposting my comment here
I genuinely think Hexbear is pretty shit of a name (and always have sorry) especially since we share it with a shitcoin. But tbh if the name is so important to federation, surely we could crowdfund the $300 or whatever the registar’s trying to squeeze out of us for the domain. MutualAid has led me to believe this could work. edit: nevermind I see the auction is now up to $505.00 which is insane but who knows maybe this is one of our comrades doing their part to secure the domain for us!
Chapo.chat will probably be cheaper when it expires so honestly my vote is to reclaim chapo.chat using crowdfunding
BernieCanStillWin.org is my backup vote.
sickobear dot net
ursusfront
very much hoping we go off hexbear, if we do im changing the deal i made tjo whatever the new logo is and tbh i really would like it to have some sort of communist imagery in it instead of it being a cartoon hexagon bear lol.
i like redbear the most out of anything that i’ve seen proposed, and the .lgbt or .su for the extension
i don’t have a specific name in mind, but what about something to do with orcas?
there is already a lemmy instance orcas.enjoying.yachts
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- zheleznogorsk.net
- honeybear.space
- honeybear.site
- hexbean.net
With honeybear, honey.tube could be bought for around $100 but the yearly cost will be around $22.
Are you a bee?
itsall.fed
Chapo.chat
it’s a shame the .baseball domain hasn’t launched yet that would have been kinda funny
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hexbear.chat
i legit think it’s funny to have to change domains again and support the saving of $ on not bidding for the old one. i mean, it blows that this will create extra work for the already voluntary maintainers.
i don’t really have a good suggestion, but it should be something equally inscrutable, cryptic, or possibly even a riff on hexbear like bexhare or hexbeanis. i like the mythology that whenever “things get too hot” the community changes its name to throw off the scent and fool our adversaries. i expect this would be the last name change, but it’s a funny bit especially since the default move is to pretend like the namebrand of any online community is sacrosanct when all it really needs to be is easily memorized and likely pronounceable.
like rizzlen.in or pigmilk.fart
I liked Beanis.Zone and FibonacciBear.net for names that keep going down the inscrutable site name rabbit hole, but think the best and easiest is use the Hexbear.zone that @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net already has and offered for use.
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There’s one thing I’m sure of, when this is all over, “visit hexbear.net” is going to be added as an emote
We finally know what :mystery-emote: is supposed to look like:
This is the dumbest shit
The intersection of capitalist exploitation and leftist infighting; a microcosm
I’ve seen this happen to actual companies. In various different ways Domains / SSL Certs / Hosting Bills. Happens at least once in a startup’s lifetime.
I got 20 dollars that says some lib wins the bid and links the domain to the Tiananmen square massacre Wikipedia page to try and dunk on us lmao
Doesn’t seem to be going well for them in the comments lol
Also, they’ve posted this in three different subs, and their account history is the most embarrassing shit I’ve ever seen lmao
That person is getting absolutely clowned on that’s hilarious
lol well if the actual owners can’t get it back then i guess this would be an alright outcome. i much prefer this than some fascist getting the domain and using it maliciously
That’s exactly what they’re trying to do lmao
Holy shit lmao
Omg this is so embarrassing.
Seriously
lmao, I guess it’s time for bean dot is
Biggest struggle session ever incoming.
pouring one out for all of the hexbears who don’t know how to reconnect with the site
hope they find their way back to us some day
Letting the hexbear domain ownership expire as a joke is not OK
😔
when the site gets back up and running, please make the “visit hexbear.net” textbox that’s replacing all the emojis rn into an actual emoji. maybe called like “:we-fucked-up:” or something
